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I bought this Item to power my laptop in my truck. It works Great so far and I have no complaints.
My only issue with this unit is that it's fans are always on. but it does exactly what it's supposed to do and handles a pretty good load for the price. I was working in my truck and there's no where to hide this thing where I'm not worried about it overheating. I ended up putting in my in-ear headphones to drown it out.
I used in My street sweeper that I drive in NYC for 8 hour work days. I was going to attempt to submit a warranty request but I have since lost the inverter altogether. So it's three stars. I must say I really liked this inverter from Whistler. I would have put five stars if it never burnt out yet I won't put one star because I never found out the warranty experience.
It performed very well in daily use. It worked awesomely to power my desk radio and Hamilton Beach air purifier. I started using June 1st 2009 and it lasted until just after Christmas. I loved the whistle it gave if my battery was low however it was the same whistle that would announce its death followed by horrible electrical smoke and smell.
Startup watts on my device is 380 watts and continuous power is around 200. Today I finally needed to use it for what I purchased it for. The unit itself is blown. Thinking the fuse had blown, I popped it out and it isn't. I bought this device after years of having a much lower power model work great and this one had good reviews.For lower power applications it has worked weeks flawlessly. Well under the 800 watt peak of this unit. I hope I'm within the return period and if they don't replace this one, it will be my last purchase of one of their products. It died on within a second.
Easy to just get new ring terminals and re-crimp, but this sort of thing should not happen to brand-new stuff.The vent holes on the side of the unit are not in a straight line, they look like they were drilled by someone holding a drill rather than on an assembly line machine. This unit comes with a car cigarette lighter adapter which connects to the unit via ring terminals at the end of its 2 + and - cables. Well, I connected the adapter ring terminals to the unit, and both adapter cables detached from their ring terminals at the same time. I bet this product is manufactured by hand with very basic tools rather than on a modern assembly line. Looks like the ring terminals were not crimped to their cables properly.
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