- Hi guys, Andrew here from Accelerate,
and we're here today
to talk about all things induction.
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So, we've got an inductive cooktop set up here,
we've got it hooked up
to a REDARC management system
with a RedVision screen,
so we can watch the amperage.
And what we're gonna do is we're gonna see
how many amps it uses to heat up some water,
and we're gonna pit it against an electric kettle,
so we can go through some of the different features
between the two ways of doing it.
Now, there's a lot of benefits
to an inductive cooktop,
and I reckon they're awesome.
So, for starters,
totally not wind affected,
we could have 30 knot winds coming through here,
it will be exactly the same,
so, it's got that on gas.
Secondly,
it's a full green energy source,
so, the power that this thing's running off
is coming from the solar,
and it emits no gases, no nothing,
it just sits there and works as a full green thing.
After we've finished,
it's cool to touch within about 30 seconds.
It's easy to clean
and I don't have to carry any gas bottles or anything.
I've already got a battery,
obviously to run the fridge
and all the rest of it.
So, this just marries off the back of that.
So, it's a great thing to have.
Okay, so, we're gonna do a test here.
We've got my little kettle here,
this is my collapsible kettle.
It's got half a litre water in it at the moment,
and we're gonna switch it on.
We're going to see how many amps it draws,
the percentage of battery we use,
and also we're gonna see how long it takes to work
So, we've got a timer running
and we're going to run that timer
and we're going to show how quickly it boils.
Oh, look at that, my battery is spot on 80%.
All right, so I'm just going to turn it on
and I'm going to put it on the boil setting
and we're just going to watch it run
and see how long it takes.
As you can see, it's going up to about 177 amps.
It's fluctuating up there,
and it's sitting at about that and it's still going.
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We're bang on a minute and went down to 78%.
So we've used 2% of a 200 amp lithium battery.
All right, so one common misconception with these things
is because on paper it draws 177 amps
everybody thinks it's going to drain their battery a lot,
but it's only running for a minute.
So it really is only 1 or 2% of your 200 amp battery
to have it running for that time.
So I can boil a jug of water
and it virtually makes no impact on my battery percentage.
All right, so that one's all boiled now.
We've shown how good inductive is.
So down here, I got old faithful.
Here's a Sunbeam kettle,
again, with half a litre of water in it.
And we'll whack it on and see how she goes.
So straight up to 153 amps or 160.
So very, very, very similar and pretty much the same drawer.
So we've got the stopwatch running
and let's see how it goes.
So obviously this works differently.
It's just got an element going on inside
that heats up and is boiling the water.
And that's why I believe they are a lot less efficient.
(kettle hums gently)
All right, so we're almost, there you go,
we've just clicked off.
So down on the stopwatch,
which we'll show on the screen, that is 1 minute 54.
So to boil exactly the same amount of water,
in the same conditions, from the same inverter,
with the same battery, it has taken twice as long
to use old faithful here.
That's dropped it down to 77%.
Now, obviously we're only talking 1 or 2%.
Don't hate on it and be super accurate,
but they both draw a similar current, but twice as long.
So you can imagine if you're turning
that into a litre of water, that's two minutes difference,
two litres of water, four minutes of difference,
and it's exponential from there.
So also cooking is the same deal with an electric fry pan.
So this is why I reckon these things are great
and it's the way to move forward.
All right, so for the next part of our test,
we're going to cook some bacon and eggs.
So we've made our coffee in the morning
that took us a minute.
And now we've got our fry pan here
and we're going to cook some bacon and eggs.
So, got some bacon, got some eggs,
got some weapons.
All right, oh, and the olive oil.
All right.
Off we go.
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(bacon sizzling)
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So there you go, a really poorly cooked breakfast,
but cooked nonetheless, and great for this demonstration.
So to cook the bacon and eggs,
we used 5% of my 200 amp battery.
For my coffee I used say 2%, so that's 7% in total.
So all we've really used to make our entire breakfast
is 14 amps.
Now with 150W solar panel on the roof
that does about 10 amps in full sun.
So, an hour and a half without even moving it,
once I go put the fire on everything's recharged
and ready to go, and it was like it never happened.
So to get all this running, here I'll put this down,
all I've really got, the minimum you could have,
you could have a 200 amp lithium battery,
a 2000W inverter, 150 or something solar panel.
And you could just run this with a BCDC charger
and that'd control your solar
and obviously your alternator while you're driving.
So there you have it,
this is why I love inductive cooktop.
This is why I've turfed my gas bottles and my big gas stove,
and I've moved over this way.
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I'm off to have my brekkie.
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