I mean there’s Welding setups that can be run off a car, but those require a lot of modification.
Most likely that persons minivan isn’t capable of more than 240W, but the engine would certainly capable of running a kettle. It just needs a bigger alternator/generator on it.
And the cars battery could also provide enough amps for a beefy inverter, at least for a while.
A car outlet usually doesn’t go past 200W either. They could have previously heated the water and were keeping it warm, or heating just a small amount of water
A kettle through a USB outlet? USB Type C PD tops out at like 200 W or so…
I feel like it makes more sense to have been running off a conventional 120V outlet which some minivans have
I don’t build the cars I just make the memes 🤷♀️
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It’s Star Trek, Linux, and USB specs. You can’t not have people talking about one of those.
240W for 3.1, but it’s pretty rarely implemented and there’s no way a car’s built in USB port is going over 15W.
240W is also 20A in a 12V car which is definitely going to blow a fuse.
I mean there’s Welding setups that can be run off a car, but those require a lot of modification.
Most likely that persons minivan isn’t capable of more than 240W, but the engine would certainly capable of running a kettle. It just needs a bigger alternator/generator on it.
And the cars battery could also provide enough amps for a beefy inverter, at least for a while.
Who knows, maybe it was modified?
A car outlet usually doesn’t go past 200W either. They could have previously heated the water and were keeping it warm, or heating just a small amount of water