Never Leave Home Without A/C Power

"Face it. Electricity is your lifeblood. Food, water, sure they keep your meat-puppet body functional... but what good is living without computers, video games, and widescreen TV? The Power Dome Mini Generator understands your electrical fetish. Charge-up the internal battery and take it on the road to power virtually any device from the two built-in AC wall sockets. You can run a TV for 5 hours or a PS2 for 8 hours... the Power Dome can even jump-start your car. Want continuous juice? Jack it into your car's cigarette lighter and it will run your AC powered devices indefinitely (or until your car runs out of gas). You also get a built-in 275 psi air compressor, and a handy utility light."

Price: $99.99. Read about it here.

I like this! Plus the idea you can plug it into the car's cigarette lighter. You can brew coffee on the go. Of course, you can't hit any bumps.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

OK, Here's what we need. My portable Tesla Coil can be a plug in device also. Plug it in to this thing and transmit the power to your Tesla enabled device. Woo Hoo (I'm going to be so pissed in 10 years when this stuff is real)
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Oh, yeah, Moon. Get that coil on the market! Heck, maybe you could make a deal with the generator folks and they'll market it with the generator.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

So have you had a chance to try out this yet? Does it work well?
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I plugged a few things in it and it works as described.

It's very compact and the compressor hose, jumper cable, and the adapter for the cigaret lighter in the car store right in it. Got it all charged up and ready for power outages.

I think this is going to be one of my favorite things. Throw it in the trunk of my car when I travel and I have power wherever I go.

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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

You know what? I am getting the feeling I NEED one of these things...

It's one of those things that when you need one and don't have one you kinda boink yourself in the head and, "Why didn't I?"

Later ...
Looks like you can save a lot on it at Amazon. No shipping fee, either.

Amazon
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

Oregonian wrote:

It's one of those things that when you need one and don't have one you kinda boink yourself in the head and, "Why didn't I?" Later ... Looks like you can save a lot on it at Amazon. No shipping fee, either. Amazon

Thank you very much for pointing that out, O. I have one on the way.

Can't wait!

Now I'm boinking myself and asking, "Why didn't I check Amazon first?"
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

Oregonian wrote:

Now I'm boinking myself and asking, "Why didn't I check Amazon first?"

That is about par for the course, isn't it?

Yup.

I did a Google search on the name of it and the Amazon link came up. *mental string around finger* Next time, try Google first and see what comes up.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

Would you believe that it is already here?

I want to try it but is says to charge it up first.

Patience is a virtue, I hear.

I wish it had compartments to put the various cables used to charge it up in though. I haven't missed them, by any chance, have I?

Unfortunately, the charging cables don't have a compartment of their own. I put them in a plastic ziplock bag and put that plus the instructions into a plastic grocery bag with handles and tied the handles around the handle on the top so they are with the generator. Gonna sew me up a zipped bag that attaches a little more elegantly and is a bit stronger.

Yeah, charging time is long. I see in the instruction book at 34 hours, a piece of tape around the handle said no less than 48. Also says not to exceed 48 hours.

It takes 12 hours DC in your car. Got any 12 hour trips to take?

Later: Actually, you could probably find a little zipper case at WalMart or some other -Mart to put it all in. I will keep a look out for something suitable.

A long one of these things would work to connect it to the generator. Don't know what they're called. I have lots of them and would expect you do, too.

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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

Oregonian wrote:

Unfortunately, the charging cables don't have a compartment of their own. I put them in a plastic ziplock bag and put that plus the instructions into a plastic grocery bag with handles and tied the handles around the handle on the top so they are with the generator. Gonna sew me up a zipped bag that attaches a little more elegantly and is a bit stronger. Yeah, charging time is long. I see in the instruction book at 34 hours, a piece of tape around the handle said no less than 48. Also says not to exceed 48 hours. It takes 12 hours DC in your car. Got any 12 hour trips to take? Later: Actually, you could probably find a little zipper case at WalMart or some other -Mart to put it all in. I will keep a look out for something suitable. A long one of these things would work to connect it to the generator. Don't know what they're called. I have lots of them and would expect you do, too.

I'll figure out something.

Were you talking about Tyraps? I guess that is a brand name though.

It is still charging. Looking forward to trying it out.

You can download an extra manual here. It's the bottom one.

http://www.wagan.com/htmls/downloads.html
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein