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Rank: Thing Fling
Joined: 10/23/2006
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Provides the Power to run electronic home and mobile office equipment from a vehicle. Converts 12 volts DC battery power to 120 volts AC household appliances from your car, truck, boat, SUV or RV. This is the ideal mobile office companion from Xantrex, the XPower Micro Inverter 400 watts. One of the smallest 400 watt power inverter on the market today. Enough power to run a cell phone, camcorder, video game console, stereo system, a lap top, even a 27inch television from your car. The XPower Micro Power 400 includes cables to attach the inverter to your battery or through your cigarette lighter. Retails from between $50.00 - $60.00. THING FLING price is $19.99 plus shipping.
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Rank: Serious Thing Flinger
Joined: 3/5/2008
Posts: 60
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look cool.
THING FLING price is $27.99 plus shipping.
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Rank: Serious Thing Flinger
Joined: 10/31/2007
Posts: 48
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I'd like to mention that most cigarette power sockets are not able to deliver 40A, and that at this current the battery of a car won't hold a charge for long.
A big battery is typically 90Ah, which gives approx 2 hours of runtime at 40A and no energy to start the car afterwards.
So you might want to run this off a second battery if you are serious about using 400W of power.
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Rank: Crazy Flinger
Joined: 12/18/2007
Posts: 366
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uski wrote:I'd like to mention that most cigarette power sockets are not able to deliver 40A, and that at this current the battery of a car won't hold a charge for long.
A big battery is typically 90Ah, which gives approx 2 hours of runtime at 40A and no energy to start the car afterwards.
So you might want to run this off a second battery if you are serious about using 400W of power. Once again, their writeup seems a little flaky (can't find ANY mention of 40A anywhere on the product website, specs, or documentation...except in the Xantrex 40-Amp Battery Charger...a completely different item). From everything I can see, this is a pretty nice inverter, if it's something you need, with a good auto shutdown if the battery level drops below a certain point, so you should never get into that 'no energy to start the car afterwards' situation that my wife managed to do this winter (THAT was a coooold jump start!).
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Rank: Crazy Flinger
Joined: 3/4/2007
Posts: 55
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I got shagged a while back with a Xantrex 100W converter. Thought I would never, ever use it.
Well, we went on a trip to the east coast via car (from upper Midwest). Ran a GPS unit intermittently, while regularly powering a mp3 player and portable DVD device. Worked like a champ! If I did not have that 100W one, I would definitely jump in on this one.
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Rank: Crazy Flinger
Joined: 6/3/2008
Posts: 154
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Thingfling is making christmas easy for me. I had a friend asking how much these went for and then decided against one due to price. My credit card is hurting a little, but I wont need to shop at christmas. Unemployed (Student) and addicted.
Shagged 1 time on 7/8/08
15 flings so far(only 1 MB missed and 1 opt out since signing up)
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Rank: Crazy Flinger
Joined: 4/30/2008
Posts: 109
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I just bought something either exact or almost exact to this, at Costco, just this past weekend. I purchased the Xantrex XPower 400Watt Power Inverter, for the same price, of $19.99. The only difference I see, is that the one TF has, is called a "Micro" Power Inverter, and the UPC number is 2 numbers off. That said, I'm making an assumption that the one TF has is newer and better. Probably a smaller model that does the same thing.
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