what is up YouTube today we are talking about power inverters
When traveling for extended periods of time, finding electricity to power all your devices
can really become an issue and that is where the Bestek 300 watt power
inverter comes in. So the Bestek 300 watt inverter is enclosed in an aluminum case
it doesn't feel cheap at all it really feels like it's gonna withstand the test
of time I've had this for about two months now and I haven't had any issues
with it yet my other inverter that I had before this
one didn't even last a month first of all this inverter has a 2 foot long cord
which plugs into 12-volt cigarette lighter the cord length is great it
allows you to really hold this pull this inverter to wherever you want in the car
and there's really no issues with cable length or cable reach or anything like
that secondly there's this switch on here and
that powers the inverter on you will need to use this switch whenever you are
charging anything with the 110 volt AC plug. So there's two 110 volt AC outlets on the
front of this as well as two 2.4 amp I believe USB charging ports as well which
are DC and will be on anytime this is plugged in there's also a light here it
will shine green if everything's good and I believe it will shine red if
something happens but I have never seen it red thankfully now this fan also
comes on to help cool the inverter and make sure nothing it doesn't overheat or
anything like that and this fan is not silent but it is relatively quiet and
we'll see that when we go out to test it in a moment the other thing that this
inverter has that my previous one did not have is inside it has a 40 amp fuse
which is nice so that means it's gonna protect
your device it's gonna protect your vehicle now the downside I have with
that is it is it is a fuse but it is soldered on to the board inside of here
so to replace it most likely would not be worth the time and the effort
considering this is only a $28 inverter now let's go out to the truck and test
Okay, so like I said before this is a second inverter I've owned I
actually destroyed my last one because I plugged something into it
that was just too much wattage and the other power inverter that I had did not have a
fuse in it at all so had no fuse so what happened is it fried the power inverter
and then it blew the fuse on my truck that goes to all of my cigarette
lighters in the entire truck so that was crappy didn't want that to happen again
so I made sure to buy a power inverter that had a fuse. Granted it has a
built-in fuse that you can't replace so if you blow the fuse you basically have
to throw the whole thing away but it's better than blowing the fuse on the
truck and destroying the power inverter in the process so this power inverter as
soon as you plug it in it is live the vehicle does not need to be on and as I
said before the USB ports will be at will be live immediately when you plug
it in the AC outlets, however, will only work when the inverter itself is turned
on which converts the DC from your trucks battery or car to AC which can be
utilized by household appliances or laptops to charge your laptop or charge
anything for this example I'm be charging this camera battery so it looks
like it might start raining again but we're gonna go ahead and plug the power
inverter into this cigarette lighter which is a 12-volt
cigarette lighter and then it should now be live as I showed you before it's got
a 2 foot long cable so I can put it all the way to the back if I want to
got plenty of slack plenty of space to move it around and just a good long
cable so let's try it out first with the USB ports as I said before the truck is
not on and the phone starts charging which is great means two things that
means one you can charge your devices off your cars or trucks battery when
your truck isn't even powered on but what that also means is that you're
drawing power from your battery and you need to be cautious and not drain your
battery my trucks are diesel and it's a big truck so it has two batteries and
really not worried about a little phone charge it don't do anything to it but if
you are in a smaller car something I would suggest
unplugging the inverter when you are stopped or when you're parked or when
you're gonna be somewhere for a bit of time so now to actually test the power
inverter the thing that takes your DC battery power and converts it to AC so
you can use a normal 110 volt plug and charge any of your devices like I said
before you can charge even your AC with your vehicle off I wouldn't recommend it
if you specially if you have a smaller battery you are going to drain your cars
or trucks battery while you're doing this so to turn the inverter on we go
ahead and flip this switch and if you can hear the fan see if you can hear
that it's a low humming sound it's really not
bad then the majority of the sound simply comes from the fan that cools off
the inverter and make sure it doesn't ever heat nothing bad happens as you can
see when we turn the inverter on this green light also comes on that's just
showing that it's working it's on and everything's good to go now to plug in
the battery pack just to show you that it works and that it's not gonna
blow your fuse as you can see the red light is on it is currently charging my
battery which is awesome with just what I want it's not excellent spacing so
like if you have something like this size you have to remember the outlets
are right next to each other so you're not going to be able to utilize this
plug if you have something large charging next to it which is one of my
complaints I wish they would have spaced out these plugs a little bit more jeez I
wish they would have spaced out these plugs a little bit more and I wish they
would have made the fuse removable but what can you do at the end of the day
you get what you pay for and for this you only pay twenty eight dollars
I'm actually gonna throw an Amazon link in the description if you want to see
what the current price is go ahead and click on it and you'll bring you to the
Amazon page show you what the current prices
but as of now this is twenty eight dollars and this is still the number one
bestseller on Amazon for power inverters it's it's great it's cheap it's perfect
for your for a road trip or if your gonna be long-term traveling or if you
just want to have outlets in your car and all you have is a cigarette lighter
and some of the newer cars they're putting outlets into them but for the
most part it's still cigarette lighters or something similar so this is awesome
for turning your car into somewhere that you can charge all of your things so the
things I like about this power inverter are that it does have two outlets to AC
110 volt outlets as well as two USB ports I
you love that I can charge my USB devices when the inverter is off and I
also like that I can use this when the vehicle was off I love that it has a
fuse and I think that's very important to have a fuse so that you don't blow the
fuse on your vehicle or risk messing anything up or messing your devices up I
also like that the fan that it has is very quiet if you have music playing or
anything in your car you're not gonna hear the fan it's really not a big deal
at all however the downsides of this this
specific power inverter are that the fuse is not removable the 40 amp fuse is
soldered on to the board so that means if the fuse blows it's either really
hard to replace or you will have to just buy a new one that's probably what I
would do I probably wouldn't fight with the fuse and try to solder new fuse on
or replace it or whatever it probably just wouldn't be worth it for 28 bucks
my other problem with it is when you are playing music if you have an auxiliary
cord and you are playing music if it overlaps if your auxiliary cord comes
close to this or overlaps any of the cables coming out of this you will get a
slight hum playing through your radio so you have to be aware of that also if you
have your phone plugged into this into the USB ports and you have an auxiliary
cable also plugged into your phone playing music off of it you also may get
a slight hum you may just have to rearrange the cables to try to fix the
hum that's usually what I do I can usually stop it but it's still somewhat
annoying however, you can't beat power having power when you're traveling is extremely
important so that makes this device something that everybody should have in
their kit in their back pocket so that they can
charge all your devices while you're on the road we all have so many I mean I
know I do laptops cameras phones like it's just crazy how many electronic
devices I have and it's also crazy how hard it is sometimes to get electricity
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