High wattage hairdryer

[circee]

Hi ,

Hope this board can help with my question. I just bought a high wattage professional hair dryer. I LOVE it because it blow drys my hair as straight as a flat iron. However, i just visited my folks and the darn thing kept blowing a fuse in their house. Now I'm worried about taking it on my caribbean cruise this fall. Has anyone used an appliance like this on a cruise ship? Thanks for any help or advice.

Claudia

[Happy ks]

My travel dryer (I think it's 1200 watt) has almost blown the fuse in a ships' cabin before. Of course, this was on an older ship, the newer ships may be wired for a lot more wattage. Make sure it has an emergency shut-off, so you don't blow the fuse for the whole deck you're on! My travel dryer will cut off if the current isn't strong enough. I think, I'm no electrician.

 

This is the reason for no irons onboard a ship, the wattage is too high. Most people think it is because the iron will catch on fire if it is left on. If that were the case, I should have burned down my house a couple of times over the years.

 

I think it is very thoughtful of you to check on this before there is a problem, you may have to speak to someone on the ship about it.

[booboo4031]

I travel with an 1800 watt hair dryer and have never had a problem.

[circee]

The hairdryer has the shut off if you drop it in water or the ground is interrupted but I don't think that would stop from blowing out fuses . . . I'd better check with Celebrity because we are not sailing on one of the newer ships. How embarrassing would that be if I blew the fuses on the whole deck!

[Straughn]

My travel hair dryer is also 1800 watts. I have used it on both RCCL and Celebrity ships and never had a problem.

[carrievision]

When I went on the Norwegian spirit, the ship had recently been brought over to the US from Asia (the Orient Line).

 

Since we had sailed on NCL and I had used my hairdryer without a problem before, I didn't realize that I might have a problem with my hair dryer until I read on the boards somewhere that they hadn't completely converted the electrical outlets to accept US appliances!

 

At least I could make do with the provided (weak) hair dryer! I think I used mine a few times (on low) so that I could actually make progress on getting my hair dry. :)

 

I would try and check on one of the boards about the ship that you're sailing on to make sure, or check the cruise line's information.

[circee]

Thanks all for the info. My hair dryer is 2000w so it sounds like it would be pretty iffy. I'd better take one of my older hair dryers . . even my older one would be better than the weak ones on board.