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I bought this after my previous cheap quality inverter burned down after my jacket zipper short circuited the power. The problem with the previous one was that it had a lot of exposed surfaces.
What I like about this:
(1) Works very well charged laptop, cell phone ... so far so good
(2) Corded, instead of plugged this will keep it safe as well as a good utility since I can reach it to power a laptop in the rear seats
(3) Single unit with both 110v as well as 12v USB power so I can charge my laptop as well as iphone at the same time
(4) Safe, enclosed unit
(5) Cool, has a inbuilt fan which keeps switching on/off a couple of times whenever it needs to cool off the fan is pretty silent, you can hear it only when your car is parked
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First thing I noticed when I unpacked this beauty is that well, it's beautiful!! I mean even the colors are really nice. In the picture it looks like a simple black with red inverter. But that is not the case. It is actually Gloss black with a metallic burgundy plug and fan ends. I could not have asked for a better match to my old truck as it has a burgundy and black interior. It's looks very well built and laid out. The extra high output usb ports make it a match made in heaven. You can just barely hear the fan and only when I really tried. I used it the other day to make a 260 mile round trip with it running my netbook and never had a problem one.EDIT: After 33 days.
On day 32 the fan all of a sudden started working double time and became very noisy. I tried unplugging it and plugging it back in and that's when the fan decided to squeal like crazy. Just went on like that for about a minute before it settled down. Then after that every time I plugged it in it did the same thing. I'm thinking, man what a bummer. I will just exchange it for another, but no way. I'm 3 days out of their warranty. I'm thinking NO WAY! So I get hold of customer service and they made it right (Way to go Amazon). So I thought, well only 32 days before fan failure I think I will get the next model up and see what happens. So that is what I did and purchased the Bestek 300 watt inverter. Now upon arrival (Super Fast Shipping) the first thing I noticed is that one of the USB frames was bent. Not a big deal but then as I turned it over the thing goes KLUNK. I'm like OH NOT AGAIN! As it turns out the screws that hold the fan were loose. After tightening them up everything was fine and it works well. I do notice that the fan is much noisier than the 150 watt unit but maybe being beefier it will not fail so quickly. Time will tell. I think that over all the quality control of this company is a bit poor. But being from China then what can we expect. The thing I really like over the 150 watt version is that the 300 watt version has a power switch, very handy. Hope this helps anybody with their decision to buy. Not sure if this is a bigger problem or not. Over all I really like the design of the 150 watt unit and it ran well until the fan failed. Good luck.
EDIT AFTER 4 MONTHS :
Well it had been several months and over 2000 mile trip running the newer bigger 300 watt version and I have had zero problems with it. Works great.
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Nice package, pretty quiet I wasn't having any problems with this little inverter... until the fan developed a loud whine on startup. Okay I'm willing to cut it some slack, it was still putting out good power and the sound faded fairly quickly...And then it wouldn't fade out. It sounds like the fan bearings have gone, after less than four months.
I can't say I'd recommend this unit but it's better than no inverter at all. And seeing the fan noise didn't start for a couple of months you're probably okay using this in a short-term situation. I don't know if it's a problem with this model, or if I just got lucky but I wouldn't get a second unless I was really hard up for power.
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Recently, my wife and two kids 12 and under had to travel to California, which is a 12 14 hour trip from where we live.We had just purchased some cheap Android tablets from Walmart, and all we wanted was to have an opportunity to let the kids re-charge their tablets during the long car drive. And it did exactly that. No fuss. No problems. The thing just worked, and although the kids' tablets can't be used when they are being charged, they figured out how to conserve energy (by playing games rather than watching movies), and they were able to charge one tablet as they were both playing on the other, and so forth.
Obviously, you want to read the technical specifications on a car power inverter like this. Small electric appliances, tablets and phones with electric adapters can be charged easily, but you wouldn't want to try and bring your food processor along, since that requires a lot more electrical power than this inverter can produce.
So with that in mind, I am still happy that we bought this item, and even though the vacation is long over, we still use it for this and that. To say that this comes in handy would be an understatement. I just can't say enough good things about this incredible little widget.
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