Cobra CPI 1575 1500 Watt 12 Volt DC to 120 Volt AC Power Inverter by Cobra Electronics
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Digital camera reviews of Cobra CPI 1575 1500 Watt 12 Volt DC to 120 Volt AC Power Inverter
Digital camera Review: Inverter
Summary: 4 Stars
We purchased this inverter for long car trips and vacations. With some power modifications it adapted well. My whole family can plug in laptops, USB chargers and what ever else we need to power up.Digital camera Review: Inverter
Summary: 4 Stars
Came as advertised and timely. Provided proper power output for my needs (12 amps)Digital camera Review: Inverter
Summary: 4 Stars
Works good. It will only put out 110 to 115 volts. Your regular power from the meter puts out 125 or so. But it works great for light bulbsDigital camera Review: Kirk
Summary: 5 Stars
I am using this inverter with a Coleman 18watt solar panel, sunforce 7am charge controller and a 1000 amp deep cycle battery. Lovely service from this inverter, I cannot talk about the wattage as I have never connected enough to really see but for what i am doing it is working OK.Digital camera Review: Lasted less than 24 hours
Summary: 1 Stars
Other reviewers don't seem to have had the problem I did, so this might be a good product but I must tell you my experience with it. I am very familiar with inverters and how to hook them up having lived off of solar power now for over ten years. When I first set up this inverter, the input voltage showed 12.3 volts, the same as my battery voltage but undr a 110 watt load the output wattage meter showed 0 (zero) watts. What I had plugged into the inverter was working fine (a small TV), so I assumed this meter was just broken. If that was all that was wrong I could have lived with it. The next morning I turned it on, turned on the same TV and within 20 minutes the picture on my TV slowly shrank down to a pinpoint and then shut off. There were no low voltage warning sounds. I checked my battery level and it was at 12.2 volts, the same 12.2 volts showed on the input meter on the inverter, output still showed zero, as it always did. I checked the output at all three of the outlets on the inverter and they showed zero. I turned the inverter off and then back on with the voltage meter still in one of the outlets and watched my meter go from 119 volts down to 30 volts, up to 80 volts and then back to zero. The whole time there were no warning sounds coming from the inverter. This fluctuation could very easily damage anything that was plugged into the inverter!!!!
The good news, Amazon's return system is very easy, didn't cost a penny to return it and I got a refund quickly. I thought of getting a replacement instead of a refund because of all the good reviews but decided not to press my luck, no equipment was damaged this time but why risk it again. If I could rate Amazon I would give them five stars but the inverter gets zero xtars since it didn't function as advertised, went dead under much lower load than it is rated for.