Energizer 180W Cup Inverter - NO it doesn't tip your cup over...
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,189 words · ~5 min read
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so this will be a little different from most of our unboxings number one we
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don't have a box I have already removed the packaging from it so that I could
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have a close look at it number two is this is not a computer product but it is
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definitely technology related this is the 180 W cup inverter and it does not
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to what you might believe watch this it does not take your cup and do this with
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it that is actually not the kind of inverter we're talking about but if you
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found that terminology confusing don't worry energizers got your back because
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also on the box is this thing which has
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charge that which I think we can all agree looks like an iPad or pretty much
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any other tablet depending on which side of the Apple versus Samsung thing you
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happen to sit on uh that thing which looks like probably a laptop although it
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could be a really old desktop but they probably don't want you to charge an old desktop because that explode uh in your
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that thing which I think we can all agree is a water fountain so pretty much
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what it does is it takes the power that comes out of your car out of the
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cigarette lighter doodad right here and it turns it into something that your
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other devices can use so you get four USB ports Each of which share 2.1 amps
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of total available power and you get one standard 120 volt receptacle that you
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can use to oh I don't know any number of things you can charge a notebook you can
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sit and use a notebook in the car you can you know I don't know I've seen
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people run game consoles in the backs of their vehicles mind you that was back
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when game consoles didn't consume nearly as much power the device itself runs off
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of the car or it can run directly off a battery however it should be noted that
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it will decrease the lifespan of your battery to use it constantly and
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aggressively and drain the battery of your car very very often in order to use
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this device so it's recommended for you know when you have the engine running
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with that said when you have the engine running or really in any situation it's
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not quite a pure sine wave that it's outputting on this particular Port so
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you might run into a little bit of interference with things like cheap radios or whatever else the case may be
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but most devices particularly modern ones or ones that are taking the power
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and then converting it into something that they can use which usually ends up
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being DC anyway such as a notebook computer are going to be fine um like
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kind of 99 okay I don't want to quote a number but a lot of the time so let's go
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ahead and see what you might actually need an out and four USB ports for in a
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vehicle now it's funny cuz I'm being a little bit factious and I'm sort of
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playing on the whole how technologically dependent our our lifestyles are these
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days but the reality of it is I have managed to create a scenario here that
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is not completely unrealistic so step
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one I've got see I've got four devices plugged in and I've got a laptop plugged
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in and this is plugged into the charger here remember guys some Vehicles will
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discharge this port even when the car is powered off so the advantage of that is
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that you can still run devices even when the car is powered off the disadvantage is it'll run the devices and you might
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drain your car battery and then not be able to start it so be careful of that
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watch out for that so check this out okay so number one is I have a tablet
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this tablet right here even on a 10-hour road trip is not going to run out of
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battery when I give it to the kids in the back to watch a movie okay but how
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are they going to watch a movie they've only got 16 gigs of storage on that tablet right here guys this is a Seagate
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golex satellite this is the last generation the wireless plus is the
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current generation one so this is a wireless hard drive that has up to 500
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gigs or the new ones have a terabyte of storage boom they're watching their
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movies right there okay next up we've got uh this right here so this is my
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notebook this notebook right here you can tell from the power brick how much
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power it's going to draw so it's 19 volts 3.42 amps it's not really
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important to zoom in on that but I do want you to check this out on the super
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circuits volts Watts amps converter all you have to do is key in any two values
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and that'll give you the other value so this is a 65 wat notebook so we're not
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going to be anywhere near the 180 wat limit of this particular device now
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there are more powerful ones but this one is designed to fit in a cup holder so it's not exactly going to run your
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like you know popcorn maker or something like that all right but how am I going
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to work on my notebook if I don't have internet boom now I don't have to worry
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about the battery dying on my cell phone even if I have a portable Wi-Fi hotspot
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with tethering enabled so I can run that as long as I need to because that is
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also charging and then last but not least because we are so depend on having
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our devices running all the time I have my fuel plus see it's at 75% this is a
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portable battery that I can then take with me when I arrive at my destination
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to keep topping up my devices even when I am not in the vehicle so I have there
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Justified a usage scenario for five devices plugged in in the car at the
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same time now if you guys will excuse me I have some work to do and uh don't
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