Hair dryer on reflection

[cruisinforabruising]

My wife is asking me to post this...

 

She has a 1875 watt iconic hair dryer and wants to know if the hair dryer in the sky suite is comparable? She has very long hair and was wondering if the women out there would recommend bring hers or using Celebrity's?

 

 

 

 

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[wallie5446]

My wife always brings her own.

[didicruiser]

Bring your own! Well worth it! The hair dryers aren't that strong. You will regret not bringing your own!

As you can tell, I have a strong opinion on this matter :D

[SUSIEK]

Just off Reflection Saturday. I have short hair and the hair dryer was OK. I would not recommend for someone with long hair.

[hidleferd]

I was just on the Reflection last week, and the hair dryer at the most powerful was 1200 watts.

[1313steve]

Whether using the provided blow dryer or one brought on board, am I correct in saying that it still has to be used in the room because it can't be plugged in in the bathroom?

[helen haywood]

Correct. It can only be plugged in at the desk below the mirror.

[FortyNinerLiz]

My wife is asking me to post this...

 

She has a 1875 watt iconic hair dryer and wants to know if the hair dryer in the sky suite is comparable? She has very long hair and was wondering if the women out there would recommend bring hers or using Celebrity's?

 

 

 

 

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Bring your own. I have thick hair and I use a Yellowbird 1800 watts. The ship's hairdryers are worthless for thick or long hair!!

[drarill]

I always bring my own too!!:):)

[LetsGetWet!]

FWIW, there's a reason that the ship-provided hair dryers are only 1200 watts. Even at home, using an 1875 watt hairdryer is marginal in many cases. Quite a few home electricity circuits are sized at 15 amps. That means the wire is sized to carry up to 15 amps, and the circuit breaker is generally a 15 amp breaker. This is not universally true, some fairly new homes use 20 amp circuits in the bathrooms & kitchen. But an 1875 watt hairdryer on a 15 amp circuit is really slightly overloading that circuit.

 

Power (watts) = voltage x current (amps.) Voltage is 120 volts, so doing the math an 1875 watt dryer at 120 volts is actually drawing 15.625 amps all on its own - with NOTHING else plugged into the same circuit. Sometimes at home you can actually feel the outlet & plug area getting warm after running one of those dryers for a few minutes. I'm not positive what the service is on cruise stateroom outlets, but its a good guess that its a 15 amp circuit also.

 

So, not trying to say don't take your own hairdryer (because nobody would listen to me anyway! :D) but be aware, don't try to use anything else when they're plugged in, and don't leave them on high any longer than necessary.