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70-Watt Power Inverter
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(1 out of 5) by L. Bacon on Mar 2, 2008I bought one of these and my mother bought one. Both of these smoked, hissed, and put out a noxious fume when used in our vehicles. One was used in my mother's Prius and I used mine in my Explorer. My mother was afraid that it had fried her computer, but luckily it did not. I'm so glad she warned me because I had bought it to charge my son's Nintendo DS in the car. This is a horrible product and it does NOT work.
Nice, but not for inflight use.
(4 out of 5) by Armano on Apr 2, 2007 (Sunny Valencia, SoCal 661)Did not work in a US Airways plane.
Originally purchased for use in my car. Bought a larger direct wire unit so decided to use this strictly for plane flights for my laptop and iPod. Bought an "airline to cigarette lighter" adapter and off I went.
Surprise-it did not work! Lighted up fine, but had no AC output. Inverter is OK, worked fine in the car the night before. We had a multimeter handy so we started trouble shooting it.
15.8v @ the "Empower" socket in the seat. 15.8v @ the "airline to car lighter" adapter. Function light "green" on the inverter when plugged in. No output @ the AC socket.
Started researching for a replacement and see that some have input capabilities as high as 16v. Not Vector. I am looking for one with a factory airline plug and "OK for airplanes" certification. Perhaps the 15.8v was beyond the acceptable threshold for a "car/12v" inverter.
Just a heads up if you are looking to use on plane flights.
Originally purchased for use in my car. Bought a larger direct wire unit so decided to use this strictly for plane flights for my laptop and iPod. Bought an "airline to cigarette lighter" adapter and off I went.
Surprise-it did not work! Lighted up fine, but had no AC output. Inverter is OK, worked fine in the car the night before. We had a multimeter handy so we started trouble shooting it.
15.8v @ the "Empower" socket in the seat. 15.8v @ the "airline to car lighter" adapter. Function light "green" on the inverter when plugged in. No output @ the AC socket.
Started researching for a replacement and see that some have input capabilities as high as 16v. Not Vector. I am looking for one with a factory airline plug and "OK for airplanes" certification. Perhaps the 15.8v was beyond the acceptable threshold for a "car/12v" inverter.
Just a heads up if you are looking to use on plane flights.
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(2 out of 5) by Dave Ilg on May 4, 2006 (N.C.)I bought this to use for my video camera and cell phone charger. I was able to use it, very well, for about 3 weeks. Then one day I bumped it, not hard enough to even dis-lodge it from the cigarette lighter socket, then it quit never to work again. I replaced it with one from Radio Shack and bought the extended warranty. I have had no problems since! This is a good product and worth it's weight in gold, but buy one with an extended warranty.