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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Buy PowerLine PowerCup 200/400 Watt Mobile Inverter with USB Power Port

PowerLine PowerCup 200/400 Watt Mobile Inverter with USB Power Port 90309
Customer Ratings: 4.5 stars
List Price: $39.99
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I was recently on a 10 hour road trip and used the Power Cup, it worked great. Both my wife and my laptops were connected to the Power Cup and we didn't have any issues. The fan does get a little loud, but not loud enough not return the Power Cup. I would strongly recommend this product.

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I was really excited about the concept and creativity of this device. It does what it says it will do and successfully charges whatever items you insert into it. Items plug into the USB port fine, however, you really have to apply pressure to put plugs in and pull them out, same for when you insert the device in your lighter outlet. I am worried that eventually something is going to get jammed or break off. So handle with care when using.

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The PowerCup kept my Kindle, phone and then laptop fully charged. Very Cool. Only disadvantage was that the cord is on the short side.

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Bought this unit and ran it 24 hours right away on 2x 12 hour trips where it ran an 85W Apple Macbook and a Acer 17" laptop (not together) with nary a hitch, glitch or problem. Also used the USB port simultaneously. This unit has a loud fan which comes on as required and seems to be a single speed fan high or nothing. It is audible even at highway speeds. However that is the price you pay for heat dissipation with this small size the alternative being a giant heat sink housing and a brick sized clump I'll take the fan thank you. The case stayed cool, the air coming out was never hot it seemed to handle the load without effort. It has visible and audible alarms, cool touch case and a perfect size box for use in a car. The 12V plug is adjustable for fit in different sized sockets. The case has plenty of openings for air flow. I wish the fan were not as prominent but otherwise I cannot fault this unit whatsoever and it ran perfectly for 24 hours straight. 1 year warranty. By using this unit with a tethered Droid phone we had constant internet on the road via laptop and 3G wireless. How cool is that.

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I LOVE my POWERCUP!! I spend a lot of time on the road so I try to have everything I'll need in the car. My car is like my moving apartment lol. The POWERCUP supports constant 200W and peek 400W which is more than enough for most of the small electronics you might bring in the car. My car only allows Max 120W (12V 10A) so no worries as long as I don't plug too many things at the same time. The POWERCUP has no problem charging my 14" laptop and I-pod at the same time. Some inverter can only charge or supply power for a laptop but not simultaneously. This product can do BOTH. I bought this two months ago and it's been working great!

To make it easier to read:

Pros:

-Very quiet(Compared with the bulky, square type of inverter)

-Cute cup design (sits right in the cup holder, easy to reach and plug)

-Continuous 200W output (enough to charge a laptop, cell phone and I-pod)

-Exterior cord (freedom to put your inverter anywhere within the cord length)

-Two outlets and a USB port(allows charging multiple device at a time)

-Auto shot down when engine is turned off(protect car battery from being drained out)

-Tight fit into the car DC socket(no shaky/on and off output, also adjustable to fit different cars)

Cons:

-The two AC outlets are horizontally placed so with most charger that has a adapter(such as cell phone charger), can't charge two at the same time.

-Inverter fan vents from the bottom(I worry about overheat because the vent is being covered in the cup holder but so far mine seems to work just fine)

Overall great product, absolutely love it! Can't imaging being without it! Have I mentioned how much I LOVE MY POWERCUP!!

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Monday, November 10, 2014

Review of Rapid Car Kit Auto Plug-in Power Charger for Verizon Apple iPhone 4

Rapid Car Kit Auto Plug-in Power Charger for Verizon Apple iPhone 4 - 4S - 4 S - ATT Apple iPhone 3G S - 3GS - iPhone 4 - 4S - 4 S - Sprint iPhone 4 - 4S - 4 S Cell Phone - BCB Brand
Customer Ratings: 4 stars
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This product is perfect. Works great at the best price. Couldn't be happier. Its a hit and miss on phone accessories.

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This item does indeed charge my iPhone 4S very quickly. It arrived professionally packaged and on time, and I couldn't be happier!

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This product was exactly what we expected to receive and works exactly as we expected it to work. The WHITE color might be a problem for some people, but it suits us just fine.

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In my case, This Charger did not work at first but after I removed iPhone4S case, it really works well.

so, if your charger does not work with iPhone case, please remove it and then try it again.

It will be perfectly working.

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This product so far as been great, don't waste your money

on a more expensive charger. It comes in a nice sealed case.

IT may be tricky inserting and unplugging due to your iphone case.

Enjoy! good product.

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Friday, October 10, 2014

Discount 12V 33AH SLA Sealed Lead Acid AGM Battery Universal B2

12V 33AH SLA Sealed Lead Acid AGM Battery Universal B2
Customer Ratings: 5 stars
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This battery was delivered fast and holds up well with my BagBoy golf cart. Only time will tell if it lasts but for now I'm very happy with this purchase.

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Friday, October 3, 2014

Reviews of GTMax Black Rapid Car Charger for AT&T Motorola BACKFLIP Android

GTMax Black Rapid Car Charger for AT&T Motorola BACKFLIP Android GSM Cell Phone
Customer Ratings: 3.5 stars
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Works fine. I don't agree with the word "rapid" though. More rapid than what? Also jiggles loose easily.

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WOW!! I didn't expect such a swift response..I appreciate the refund and I would most definetly order from you based on ethics along.

thanks again

Lola

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

12V 3.5AH SLA Battery replaces NP2.6-12 NP3-12 NPH3.2-12 PC1230 Review

12V 3.5AH SLA Battery replaces NP2.6-12 NP3-12 NPH3.2-12 PC1230 PE3A-12R - 10PK
Customer Ratings: 5 stars
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Worked as promised, came pretty quickly. As far as I could tell, they were very similar to the old batteries that we replaced. Normally, these batteries last us three years, so I won't really know for three years how they do. But they are installed, and working very well now.

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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Review of Retractable Car Charger for Samsung Strive A687

Retractable Car Charger for Samsung Strive A687
Customer Ratings: 5 stars
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Didn't get this product as quickly as I would have expected. However, I love it! The retractable cord makes it so nice to store in my car's console. Very happy with this purchase!

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Cheap Car Kit Vehicle Charger + Home Wall Travel Battery Charger

Car Kit Vehicle Charger + Home Wall Travel Battery Charger for Verizon Samsung Gem i100 - Tmobile Samsung Exhibit 4G - Samsung Gusto - Samsung Intensity 2 U460 - Verizon Samsung Convoy 2 U660 Cell Phone - Premium Combo Pack - BestCellBuy Brand
Customer Ratings: 4 stars
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This order came with the wall charger and a car charger. There's a light indicator that is lit when it's plugged in and charging. I don't have one complaint! Great buy.

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great deal! verizon wanted $29.95 for a car charger!super fast ship, trust this vendor. I bought 2, vacation home and town house plus 2 cars with chargers for less than 1/2 what cel provider wanted for a vehicle charger.

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We have been using this every day for one month and it is still working. So to me this is a keeper.

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The home wall charger works perfect like it a lot. The vehicle charger on the other hand for some reason does not fit the lighter slots on my cars. I guess I didn't know there were different types.. watch out for that and make sure yours will accept this particular plug.

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The first time I plugged in the wall charger with my phone, it charged for about an hour and then shorted out creating a burned plastic smell, and stopped working. I use the charger in my car daily and have not had any issues with it in over a month of use.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Review of Gomadic High Output Home Wall AC Charger for the Philips GoGear

Gomadic High Output Home Wall AC Charger for the Philips GoGear Aria SA1ARA08 with Power Sleep technology - Intelligently designed with Gomadic TipExchange
Customer Ratings: 5 stars
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It nice to have on vacation when you do not

have your computer with you. I purcharse this

at Amazon.

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This was the perfect item. I like the fact that I don't need to charge the ipod at the computer all the time. It only goes on the computer for music and updates.

Monday, May 19, 2014

Cheap PowerFilm 10 Watt Foldable Solar Panel Charger

PowerFilm 10 Watt Foldable Solar Panel Charger
Customer Ratings: 5 stars
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I have been trying out Solar Chargers for the past 6 plus months. Interest in solar charges grew from wanting to be prepared for emergencies. The electronic devices that I have are powered through AA, AAA, and USB sources. Therefore, my focus was on finding a solar charger that can power one or any combination of the three. This is the review of the PowerFilm 10-Watt Foldable Solar Charger.

Starting with some basic information for this charger, the product comes with the PowerFilm 10-Watt Foldable Solar Charger, one PowerFilm's RA-2 12 Volt Female Cigarette Lighter Adapter, a very basic instruction foldout, and everything is contained in a cardboard box. I appreciate the cardboard box as it does not waste space and is perfect size for efficient storage. It fits snugly around the charger which when folded, is approximately 10 1/2 inches long and 4 inches wide. The solar charger itself appears very durable and its build quality is excellent. It has a thin and flexible solar film encased in a UV protection layer, and it is stitched into durable nylon material. The manual instructs that if the solar charger becomes wet or submerged, it should continue to work after given some time to dry.

The solar charger was able to successfully charge my iPhone 3GS with different car adapters. With the iGo car charger and different levels of sunlight (direct-indirect, peak-off peak, etc.), I was able to charge the iPhone at a rate of 10% charge for every 14 minutes. This is fast when compared to different chargers that have been tested, especially among other solar and portable chargers. I never drain my iPhone completely, so actual trial times for a complete charge is not available.

Another great positive to this charger is that I am able to utilize my Sanyo Eneloop USB AA/AAA Charger attached to a Scosche USB car adapter. This provides the ability to charge AA and AAA rechargeable batteries. The Sanyo Eneloop USB Charger instructions states that it would require two hours to charge AAA batteries and four hours to charge AA batteries. The charge time was consistent whether it was connected to my MacBook or the Solar Charger.

Being rated at producing 15.4 volts with 0.6 amps, the PowerFilm 10-Watt Foldable Solar Charger is not likely to charge a power hungry item, such as a laptop computer, on its own. However, these panels can be connected in parallel with combined output of up to 20 amps. PowerFilm also makes similar foldable solar panels that are rated at 20, 30, and 60-Watts.

Overall, I rate this PowerFilm 10-Watt Foldable Solar Charger a 5.0 out of 5.0 stars. This solar charger meets all of my needs with great success. I am now able to power my AA and AAA rechargeable batteries, USB devices, and other devices using car adapters. Plus the build quality is excellent, the necessary female adapter is included, and the packaging is great. I finally found the dependable, durable, compact, and lightweight source of solar power that I have been searching for in case of emergencies.

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I took this item into the woods for 2 weeks, and was able to charge my smartphone enough to keep up with facebook and sms for a few minutes in the evenings. Never got a full charge. What's up with the 5 star rating for something that only charged enough for 20 minutes of data usage? How is that possible?

Easy. No direct sunlight. The best sunlight I could find was dappled. Constant haze in the sky (humid east coast forest), with lots of clouds some days. In other words, horrible conditions for solar panels.

It still worked.

Fantastic product, puts up with a lot of abuse. You can drape it over a bush, or hang it from a tree, or off the side of your tent. It's light, folds up small, and doesn't care about getting damp.

I would recommend getting a charge controller, though. I didn't, and I think my results would have been much better with a decent charge controller. I don't think the blocking diode blocks 100% of the current flow, because the panel would (slowly!) drain the phone's battery if it was in the evening shade for too long.

A 10W panel is WAY OVER CAPACITY for a smart phone (I have the HTC G1, Google's first Android phone). I would NEVER hook this panel directly up to my phone in full, direct, clear sunlight without a charge controller! However, considering the conditions, I just used the car charger for my phone and plugged it directly into the panel and it worked great.

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I bought this panel as a convenient way to keep gadgets charged while away from civilization. The unit is smaller than I imagined, and seems very rugged. The solar panels themselves are a heavy duty flexible plastic film and are glued and stitched to the nylon fabric. The whole assembly has four grommets in the corners which I'm sure will come in very handy. In the package is a cable with the panel connector on one end and a female 12v cigarette lighter socket on the other; if you have gadget chargers that plug into your vehicle's 12v power socket you're good to go. I only wish PowerFilm offered a dual 5V USB port charger cable with integrated charge controller, for the increasing number of gadgets that charge via USB. Instead, I picked up a Griffin PowerJolt Dual at the local Wally-world, which works great.

So far I've only been able to test it in the back yard, but I'm very happy with it. In full sun (2:00pm, September 24, Northern California, 86 degrees F) my meter initially read 19+ volts. Voltage seemed to drop slowly as the panel heated up. In complete shade, under the porch, the panel still put out 12.2 volts.

I had a very good experience with PowerFilm support via email. I would definitely recommend this product, and will probably buy another in the future.

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Used this during the electrical grid failure we had after the April tornados in Huntsville Alabama. Used it to charge cell phones, kindle, portable tv, and a bunch of enloop AA bateries over a period of 5 days. Folds up to a small and very lightweight package, small enough to fit inside a mens shaving kit I use to store it and 12-batteries, 2-headlamps, 1-AA flashlight, a 4-cell battery charger and assorted 12v and USB adapters cables. Great product well worth the money.

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Surprise #1: I bought my F16-600 10W solar panel charger from Amazon for a steal at 109 dollars on sale (Powerfilm was the seller).

Surprise #2: The item pictured in the description was the black one but I ended up getting a military grade version (camouflage canvas). NICE!

Surprise #3: It came with a female cigarette lighter adapter! Despite the description failing to mention this bonus I'm lucky I didn't almost spring for Amazon's "buy together with RA-2 cigarette lighter adapter for..."

Now for a quick review of the product itself. IT ROCKS! The end.

Seriously, I used this last weekend over a camping trip for 4 days. The first day was mostly cloudy and the solar panel barely produced enough current to charge my Samsung Focus Windows Phone. The second day was partly cloudy and with Seattle area sunbreaks it managed to charge my smartphone in 5 hours. The next day full sun and it charged it in 2 hours. Remember, the charging time depends on the charger itself.

Let's talk numbers now. I measured the voltage and it was as advertised coming in higher than 15.4 volts. On an overcast day it measured 50 milliamps. That's not enough to charge a smartphone. When the sun comes out it produces a strong 600+ milliamps.

Just for kicks I connected a 12 volt fan and you can tell that it runs full speed in the sun. When a cloud passes or a shadow blocks the solar charger then the fan dies.

One challenge with cloudy days is that depending on the device and the charger you might have an issue with these frequent disruptions of electricity. For example, on a smartphone when it gets power the screen turns on. This frequent disruption actually causes the device screen to turn on often and drains more from the battery each time causing the opposite effect.

I'd really like to charge some AA or AAA batteries but I can't seem to find a good battery charger that also provides USB power to devices.

The durability seems good so far. I'm a little concerned on the hottest day when the sun beat down hard on those cells and it looks like one of them might be coming off the stitching. I'll report back for sure if there is a quality issue. I have to admit, it's too soon for me to review this product.

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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Review of Pwr+® Extra Long 5.5 Ft Cord Car Charger Dc Adapter

Pwr+® Extra Long 5.5 Ft Cord Car Charger Dc Adapter for Magellan Portable GPS Navigator Se4 ; Roadmate 1200 1210 1212 1220 1224 1230 1324 1340 1400 1412 1415 1420 1424 1424-lm 1425 1430 1440 1445t 1470 1475 1475t 1700-lm ; Mini USB Power Supply Cord
Customer Ratings: 4.5 stars
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It's a power cord and it works. Nothing fancy about. I gave it 4 stars because it does exactly what its suppose to do but there's nothing exceptional about it. I would buy from this company again if or when necessary.

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This item arrived promptly and was as advertised. Cord is not coiled so it was easy to fit into the dash of my F250. Plenty of cord to go to the aux power plug. Much better than the original OEM cord.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Best Wagan 2295-6 Smart AC 210W Modifed Sine Wave Power Inverter Deals

Wagan 2295-6 Smart AC 210W Modifed Sine Wave Power Inverter with USB Port
Customer Ratings: 3.5 stars
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I bought this inverter because of its compact size. Since my car only has one power point (cig lighter), it's like a 3-way adapter.

I've used it for awhile now and works well for me. I mainly use the household outlet for keeping my laptop topped off on the road and sometimes the USB port to recharge my iPod after a long day. If I had to, I can also plug in my cell phone charger into the second household outlet.

Most other inverters were much larger and would have been messier.

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mmm. I definitely was expecting something a little different. It works okay. They haven't perfected a way for what you plug in to actually stay in. It's not the greatest compatibility. You have to maybe turn it side ways so it doesn't fall out. I get a little annoyed with things like that. You pay good money for something to deliver convenience or some sort of gratification and you still wind up settling a little. I had to turn it a few times. Push it back in a few times. If you hit a bump it might move. It is quiet though. My friend has one from another company that is noisy as hell. That would definitely annoy me more so I guess it's the lesser of evils. I'm sure with a little research there is a better version that we can totally feel confident in. So in closing if you don't mind a few things a little off and you can work around them then try it. I'm sure I'll get another type to compare because I put them in different vehicles and I'm always on the road.

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Bought this items primarily because of price and dual outlets, but wish now I had bought another. It works, but is frustrating. My primary complaint is getting this thing to stay in and connected. The metal contacts on the side are too thick and without sufficient "spring" to make good contact and hold it in place. The end contact has no spring at all, so if the unit wiggles out a fraction of an inch it loses contact and goes off. The plastic locking switch is so inaccessible and hard to move that it is effectively useless. The AC outlet contacts are so cheap that they don't hold plugs at all...they just slide in and out. Finally, when it rolled off the seat and out the door one day (maybe a one-foot drop), the cheap plastic clip that holds the unit together broke (easily remedied with some glue). If you're only concerned about price...well, I would still look at other options.

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It's a very good item and seves its purpose. This is another item I got on the daily deal and got an excellent price. I recommend that you check out the daily deals, some of them are excellent. Some of them you just don't want to pass up for the price. Like I say, if you want to charge your computer in the car it is a lot cheaper than most 12 volt charging set-ups for most computers and has multiple uses. It also has a USB outlet for charging such things as iPods.

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I bought this product to replace a much more expensive inverter I purchased from Best Buy. The more expensive inverter would get hot and sometimes it would just not work for several minutes and would go off if I started my vehicle and have to be re-inserted into the power outlet. I have had no problems with the Wagan as it stays cool, quiet and has never shut down.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Discount BatteryMINDer 12 Volt 2/4/8 Amp Wet/Gel/AGM Battery Charger

BatteryMINDer 12 Volt 2/4/8 Amp Wet/Gel/AGM Battery Charger
Customer Ratings: 4.5 stars
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I have several lead-acid batteries that I need to keep charged up; I heard about desulphating chargers, then found this one. I first used it on a 5-year-old car battery whose voltage indicated that it was at about 40% capacity. After following the directions (about 6 days of desulphating), the voltage jumped up to a point that indicated that the battery was now at 90%.

I have a friend who had been trickle charging his older car battery and felt that he had gotten it as fully charged as he could, but then I loaned him this charger and a week later got a phone message from him indicating surprise at how much his battery had improved. He was convinced! It's very possible to double a battery's life with this charger, and so it can pay for itself quickly.

The problems with this charger are the complexity and the poor documentation. I think you can see the all the lights and buttons on the front of it somewhat bewildering to most. So you have to spend a lot of time reading the manual at first, and, I think, it could take a lot less time if they could find a competent technical writer. They KNOW their manual has problems because they added a supplement that says to ignore all the instructions in the manual and just read that one page supplement! The trouble is, even that supplement is a bit hard to understand. One example is how batteries are to treated as large, medium, or small, but they really don't tell you how to classify them. I had assumed a battery for a compact car would be considered medium, but a phone call to their support guy informed me that it was actually large. The manual just assumes that we can read their minds on things like this, but we can't, so we get confused and use the charger improperly.

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I liked this so much I bought a second one. It brought a lawn tractor battery back to life from the dead, and it worked all Summer long, so it's half paid for already on that battery. I also used it on 3 AGM trolling motor batteries It has brought them back to usefulness from being in a weak state, not to new condition but 2 are over 12.7 volts after sitting 24 hours, one I am still letting desulfanate, it's back to 11.8 volts after being at 6 volts. These batteries are 8 years old and now cost over $300 each so it's more than paid for itself restoring 2, and it brings the other one back after a sitting all Winter on it I will be very very impressed. From what I can tell so far, it seems to work best defulfantating wet cell batteries but it helps AGMs as well. The new charger I just received is going on a yellow top optima for the Winter to see if it will bring it back. Starting off it was at 10 volts after fully charging and letting sit for 24 hours so it's definitely toast before letting this charger try to do it's magic on it.

Yes, I have a lot of batteries, there are 5 sitting on my work bench now on top of the one in the lawn tractor and 4 installed in vehicles. Keeping all these up to snuff is worth the effort vs replacing them. I would highly recommend this charger.

Just as a point of information, for those charging Optima batteries, Optima recommends using the wet setting, not AGM or Gel for their batteries.

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This is my first experience with the use of desulfation. I am / will be collecting data on multiple batteries to help validate the use of this charger. This review will be edited to reflect that information as I have time.

10/25/11 The Short Version: Two batteries on the recycle/core pile have been returned to "usable" status within 1 month. My ROI was less than 1 month.

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I use this unit EVERYDAY and have found it to be very reliable. I have owned this unit for more that 3 years. My uses are: AGM batteries in my Electric car to auto/truck lead acid batteries. Tried it on sealed lead acid gel batts. and did not see(not sure if meant for this)any improvement. The only con I have is the durability of the "button select" label cover. It had to be covered with clear moving tape because of exposure. I wonder if can get a new label? Other than label issue this is a great product! I highly recommend it. One of the things I wish Battery Minder would do is, make an onboard multibank desulfator for my electric car. 6 banks is what I need. I really can't see buying six separate desulfators when I could have one unit with six integrated.

Happy De-sulfating!

Daniel

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I ordered and received this a little over one month ago. As always, great shipping and delivery service through Amazon, thanks for that!

My intended purpose for this was to be able to slow charge/maintain the spare set of deep cycle trolling motor batteries I now have for my bass boat. I use an onboard charging system to maintain the ones in the boat, but only had a standard style 15amp charger for other batteries. I shopped for this and even checked the BatteryMinder website for instructions to make sure I could use this to maintain two batteries at the same time. Their directions were easy and simple to connect batteries properly to do this.

So far, the charger is working perfectly as intended. I check the battery charge state with a multi-meter and batteries are charged and maintained with this charger attached. The 2A setting is great as it does not cook off the batteries after weeks of being connected as my 15a/2a combination charger had a tendency to do. The one thing I'm not sure about but will be testing is the electrical usage for this. I will be hooking this up to AC via a Kill-A-Watt current meter to try and determine electrical cost of operation to maintain batteries to see if my diligence is cost effective as opposed to periodic battery replacements. I want to be fair with my assessment, so will take at least 4-5 months to report back on that.

The other reason for trying this is the advertised desulfation. From what I've read, this can take many weeks to be fully effective. I have this battery maintainer/reconditioner currently hooked up to a pair of 6 year old 27D size deep cycle trolling motor batteries. I have been doing this for three weeks now and I've checked them once each week both visually inspecting the appearance of the plates in each cell, with a multi-meter for state of charge, and with a load tester for condition. I have to admit, each time I have checked them, visually the plates appear cleaner with less sulfation (the yellowish film on the plates), they load test better (maintain voltage during loaded discharge better), and they recover/recharge to full state faster after proper load testing. From what I am experiencing with this pair of deep cells, this is working as claimed for me. When I started this test, the two 6 year old deep cells were load testing as just barely OK but marginal. Now after three weeks, they test acceptable, but still not quite as solid as the two brand new deep cells I purchased a month ago.

With my multi-meter, when I started, these two deep-cells would test at 12.64 volts after settling 24 hours following a 12 hour top-off/maintenance charge. After a week, that went to 12.66 volts, and now after 3 weeks, they are up to 12.69 volts. This compares to the 12.89 volts for my two brand new deep cells (these are not Optimas like my brother uses which test at 13.16 volts but cost 1.75 times more than the batteries I'm using). So each week, they are improving the capacity to hold a better charge.

Still, I'm going to give them a few more weeks as they have improved each week with this attached, maintaining, and it appears de-sulfating.

Product Update 7/14/2013:

I'm back after 2+ years of owning and using this charger, to support my 5 star review. This charger has worked excellent for me. It did revive one battery that was weak from sitting a whole Wisconsin winter at only about half charge (My bad!). I put this charger on it for about four weeks and now the battery charges fine, holds charge well, and load tests well. In addition, I rotate this charger on my bass boat batteries, ATV battery, log splitter battery, lawn tractor battery, car and truck batteries, and several other miscellaneous lead acid 12v batteries I keep for misc uses. I also 'lend' this to my brother for him to recondition his batteries. He is also very satisfied with the conditioning results he experiences with his batteries. It's currently attached to my ATV battery performing a maintenance charge. I have found it tops off batteries excellent and maintains charge excellent for extended periods of time without over-cooking the batteries or boiling off the water. I meter test and load test my batteries for measured charge, so the results I'm seeing are objective based upon actual measurable performance, not just subjective observances.

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Best Samsung Entro Premium Quality Standard Car 12 Volt Socket Charger Deals

Samsung Entro Premium Quality Standard Car 12 Volt Socket Charger Adapter
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It fits in the socket of lighter charger with a "tight push". ( Product -Samsung Entro Premium Quality Standard Car 12 Volt socket charger Adapter).

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This charger only fits the Samsung phone. Otherwise it would have received a higher rating. Now I have to have three chargers around because they all use different plugs.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Buy PowerEx Stealth Two Hour 4 Bank 9.6V Charger w/3-9.6V Batteries

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I bought the Powerex Stealth charger with the 3 Powerex batteries plus 1 single battery so I would have 4 batteries for my wife's Shure dual mic system she uses at home to sing karaoke. After a little less than a year all four batteries have bit the dust. One at a time the batteries refused to recharge and now all are bad, red lights on the charger flash and no recharging takes place. The batteries probably have less than 50 charge cycles on them, advertisement claims "hundreds" of charge cycles.

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I work with audio production and needed rechargeable 9V batteries for my wireless transmitters and receivers. Those batteries didn't work at all with my Seinheiser transmitters and worked only for a short time with my receivers. I just called Maha Energy (the manufacturer) who told me they'd replace the charger and batteries. But since the charger seems to be working fine, I'm having doubts that I got 4 malfunctioning batteries. What are the odds of that happening? Anyway, just thought I'd let you know so you don't go through the same hassle I did. I guess I should stick with the renown brands even if they cost more.

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I first bought this system for use with wireless microphones that eat 9vdc batteries and do not perform well with the 7.2 volt rechargable nicad cells. The problem has always been that with the same number of cells inside the 9v stack at 1.2 V instead of 1.5V you loose .3 V x 6 cells or 1.8 volts which drops the typical rechargable cell from 9V to 7.2 V.

Transmitters don't work well on 7.2 volts of typical rechargable "9v" batteries. You also tend to want a fresh charge on your battery before use which is where this product comes in.

It adds an extra cell to get you 9.5 volts which is typical of normal batteries.

The con: The batteries are only about 230-250 mah instead of the alkaline 500 mah so you do not get the same runtime. The charger is well made and indicates when the cells are charged.

These are recommended for use when you know that you want a charged battery and don't mind recharging it when done (example using it for a wireless mic). The higher voltage will make the product work well and you won't be wondering if the battery is fully charged or not you will know it is full every time. For people who use alot of 9V batteries, this will pay for itself in a short amount of time.

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Really not a lot to say. It's reliable, does what it's supposed to, and continues to work after extended period of ownership. Doesn't overheat, doesn't seem to overcharge. Overall, does as promised.

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The product is built very good, the charger give you red and green lights to let you know the batteries are depleted or charged, I would give this product 5 stars if the batteries would power the security camera for about 4 hours, they last about 2-3 hours, but the camera signal is stable until the end of the charge. I hope this is helpful.

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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Buy Samsung SAMI510DTC Original Desktop Station Multimedia Charging

Samsung SAMI510DTC Original Desktop Station Multimedia Charging Dock w/ Battery Charging Slot for Samsung Droid Charge
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I bought one of these for my nightstand and use is for my alarm clock. The phone automatically switches to the dock view with time, weather, etc. You can charge and extra battery in the back, so I always have power ready to go if needed. I bring it with me when I go on vacation as I can't be without it.

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It's a decent dock and works perfectly if you just want something to charge it. It has not speakers though so it's kind of pointless to use an alarm clock. I knew this going it before buying it even though I was planning on using it in more of an alarm clock fashion. It's odd though cause on the run there is a volume button. There is a spare battery charge station on it, granted that's only helpful if you have a spare battery, which I don't, but is handy cause the Samsung Charge does eat battery if you use 4G LTE all the time. To be honest I used it pretty frequently when I first got it just to charge my phone while on my desk. It's not completely worth it though because the lack of speakers. If you wants something that allows you to use your phone as a clock and charge the phone at the same time it's perfect. If you want to use it in some fashion for music it definitely falls short of that capability.

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