Duracell Modified Sine Wave Power Inverter - 150 Watt - 12V

Video Transcript for Duracell Modified Sine Wave Power Inverter Review

What's up everybody. It's Adrian with etrailer.com. Today we'll be we're checking out this modified Sine Wave Power Inverter from Duracell. It's gonna be a good way to take those household items like a laptop with you in your vehicle. Let's say you need to charge it, you can plug this in into your charger in your vehicle and then plug your laptop in here to get a charge and keep it running when you're on the go. Let's check it out.

Inside the vehicle we're going to plug it into the back port here. There's more room in the back seat to show you this stuff. And you get a green power light when it's plugged in, it's ready to use. Now you can plug in your device here, which a normal outlet like a laptop charger or something like that. And then you got the USB port here, and we can show you those in action.

We've got a power block here that we want to charge up, you just plug it in. And we see that it's getting a charge, which you might have other points like that in your vehicle. so the USB one isn't as impressive as this cord. So, we have a battery charger for our camera. If we we're out and about shooting offsite and we needed to charge our batteries we would have nowhere to do that.

Now with this we can plug that in, you can see you got the red so it's charging our camera battery right here. One of the cool things is is you can do that simultaneously. This is charging at the same time that block is, and if I want to switch things out, plug my phone in, let's say it's about ready to die and I don't have any other ports available. I can do that and it works just fine. The whole thing runs at a peak watt of 150 but stays at a running watts of 130.

And so, what that means is when you go to turn the device on it usually spikes in power. Think about your vacuum cleaner at home, plug it in, you flip the switch, your lights dim a little bit for a second and then it's fine. Well, that's the peak of it turning on just to get it to power up. And then it runs much more manageable after that. That's just something to keep in mind, this only can handle 130 running so don't try and plug something that runs at 140 in here. It won't work, it just won't power on. That automatic shut off is just an example of one of its protection features. So, that's just going to protect everything and shut down instead of damaging everything. Here's another example. We have the one battery here plugged in for some of our tools around here and this is enough wattage to where it can run it and it'll charge this one battery. Now, if I plug this bigger battery here at the same time it does not have enough wattage to charge both of them. It'll just shut down, or you'll see this one blink knowing it's not charging because it doesn't have enough to do both of them. I can pull this one out, then it starts to charge the other battery. And then we can put this one back in and now this one blinks and it shuts down. It just doesn't have enough wattage to cover both of those batteries. Some of the nice things it has it's got a vent on top to keep it from overheating, and there's a small fan on the bottom. You have grippy feet here at the bottom too, so if we we're to set it on more of a surface like this such as the center console or something, it's not going to bounce all around while you're driving. Those feet help it get some grip and also keep it up off of just laying on the fan. That way that little space lets some air get out or get in to help cool it off. I think it's a great tool to have especially if you travel a lot for work and you're gonna have your laptop on you. Sometimes you can't always get back to your room, you need that charge on that laptop you might need to get something to access to it. This is just going to keep you nice and charged wherever you are. That gives you a little bit of peace of mind that you don't have to worry about making sure it's maintained and charged all the time. You have plenty of options with all of your ports in the back seat or the front seat. And it doesn't take up a lot of space. I can unplug this and it really fits pretty much anywhere. I can put it in one of these back pockets just fine. I can put it in the center console, I can put it in the glove box. Just having it and knowing I have it is going to really help out. Well, I think that does it. Thanks for hanging out..