12v / 240v 120W Power Inverter @ Tesco.

GaryS

Ring brand 12v / 240v 120W Power Inverter marked up at £25.00 but scans at £12.00.

Found in car accessories section of Tesco.

Purchased one yesterday from Reading Kings Meadow store and there were still 3 left on the shelf.

GaryS

Still 2 of these in Reading, Kings Meadow if anyone in the area wants one.

quoia

Could anyone that has got one of these post the BARCODE for this product please ?

I've asked the main Tesco CS to see if a store near me has any but they can't even find this 120W product in ANY store :eek: even those where it has been purchased very recently - eg Kings Meadow Reading & Gorton Manchester

Every relative descriptive search on Ring, Inverter, Power etc. etc can find is the 150W + USB version BUT this is NOT a stocked item in any of over 20 stores (including those mentioned) that they've checked for me.

Bit odd !!! So they've asked for the barcode as the only way to be sure they can do a real check - on the assumption that the description for it on their computer is not one that can be found using the expected search terms

newsgroup_monkey

Can I ask, just out of interest, what you intend to power with a 120w inverter?

I can't think of anything useful that I couldn't buy a cheap car adapter for (iPod, PSP, DS, Phone, Battery Charger etc.) mostly for £1 or less.

Thing I found is that if you run these types of things at 12v, they're much more efficient than if you buy something that runs on 240v then pull it down to 10v or 6v or whatever.

Certainly, you won't be able to power anything but the most green netbook from one of these. Generally, you would need a 160w inverter to run a netbook and 200w+ for a laptop (mine often makes my 300w one scream when it first powers up).

I have just bought a 12v / 240v Fridge for the camper van. Running on 12v, it uses just 47w continuous. Running on 240v, it uses over 100w (and yes, I know my physics laws) because of the step-down power inefficency.

Just because your laptop adapter says 20v 90w, that's output. Input could well be in order of ~230v, 200w.

paulofessex

If your looking for this product at Tesco Extra Pitsea, there are none on the shelf but look above on the over-stock shelf, brown box pen marked 'tin can' couldn't make it any easier for you to find could l....lol Scanning at £12 only 5 left in the box (at approx. 19:45)