Hi, it says you can plug in your laptop directly...that means its a pure sine wave? can I trust it for my electronics?
1988269
Not sure? But i had my laptop and printer plugged in to a surge protector that was plugged in to the generator. It was plugged in for 7.5 hours with no trouble.
1988270
Laptop goes through a brick which converts AC to DC. It would not make any difference as long as you use the brick. Any decent laptop (Apple,hp, dell) will have proper circuitry to be able to operate. I use it to charge iPhone iPad and Kindle with no problems.
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I Own The IG800w And It's A Great Light Weight Generator And Very Quite When Running. This Answer Comes From The Earthquake Website!The IG800W Inverter Generator is gentle on your sensitive electronic devices. It eliminates the choppy, surging power that a less sophisticated generator will deliver by producing a 'pure sine wave'. This means that you can plug in your cell phone, your electronic tablet, or even your laptop without being concerned about damage to vital internal components.link to site: http://www.getearthquake.com/foundations/store/shopdetail.asp?params=11613 I Own The IG800w And It's A Great Light Weight Generator And Very Quite When Running. This Answer Comes From The Earthquake Website!The IG800W Inverter Generator is gentle on your sensitive electronic devices. It eliminates the choppy, surging power that a less sophisticated generator will deliver by producing a 'pure sine wave'. This means that you can plug in your cell phone, your electronic tablet, or even your laptop without being concerned about damage to vital internal components.link to site:... » Read More I Own The IG800w And It's A Great Light Weight Generator And Very Quite When Running. This Answer Comes From The Earthquake Website!The IG800W Inverter Generator is gentle on your sensitive electronic devices. It eliminates the choppy, surging power that a less sophisticated generator will deliver by producing a 'pure sine wave'. This means that you can plug in your cell phone, your electronic tablet, or even your laptop without being concerned about damage to vital internal components.link to site: http://www.getearthquake.com/foundations/store/shopdetail.asp?params=11613 « Show Less
1988272
I've had my unit since April 2014 and use it all the time with my home PC with 17" LCD monitor and 32" LCD TV... No problems encountered here...
1988273
I believe you could. However I never trust it and have a safety circuit in the line. Just for caution.
1988274
We have done two tests and can confirm that indeed you can trust the sine wave for your electronics. First we plugged our cell phones and computers into the receptacle and found no issues. Secondly we used an ocilloscope and found no raged edges on the wave. In fact we then tested the wall outlet and found that the power from the wall was not as clean as the IG800W.
1988275
I have a watt meter plug into the generator and the reading is always dead on at 60 hertz.
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When I purchased mine I got the answer to that in the literature that it came with as a modified Sine wave. However unless you are using this for medical physics the difference between the two is minimal. I hope that helps. Mine has worked fine for running a small refrigerator and TV while we camp.
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Yes, it outputs 60 Hz but DOES NOT output a sine wave. Small inverters of this type put out what is sometimes called "dirty" 60Hz power, which is perfectly fine for most (modern) digital electronics, incandescent lights, and SOME motors. It is not good for other kinds of motors some fluorescent lights, and many analog audio systems (you'll hear a hum). I'm afraid I don't know which motors are OK and which are not.
1299813
Negative, this is a modified wave inverter. They are designed to emulate pure sine waves, but the pure sine inverter from power bright is a bit more expensive and can be found on amazon. Just search pure sine power bright.
1217376
Hi Deborah,I have been successful with my hookup and audio. At this point I would make sure your laptop supports a direct HDMI connection and that you have changed your audio output in the control panel under whatever O.S. you have.Hope this helps.Also, in some situations, the audio is going to default to the laptop if the connection is a HDMI Input. You want a HDMI Output on the laptop.
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No to the first question; it's hard-wired with a 1/4 stereo plug. S'pose you could try to find a 1/4 to mini-stereo (1/8) adapter, but I've never seen on and going from large to small like that would tend to place a lot of torque on the laptop's input jack. So I wouldn't advise it. As for the sound, yeah, they're great, especially for bass-oriented rock, hip hop, or pop. They'll take a lot of volume without distortion.
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I cant even plug it into my laptop. As it clearly shows in the picture, it is plugged into the side of a laptop.
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The output is a modified sine wave, though I don't know what it looks like. I picture it being a pixellated version of the real thing, with an unknown number of successive approximations to the sinusoid (like, step functions rising to .3, .5, .7, 1.0, then down again). I have used the unit to feed into the external power supply to my MS Surface pro, and it worked fine for the last two summers on a fire lookout. As I remember, sometimes it appeared not be charging the batteries in the Surface, but then, later, they would be charged. That might have been a spurious interpretation by the power monitor in the computer. Anyway, it was an excellent solution for back-country use. The output is a modified sine wave, though I don't know what it looks like. I picture it being a pixellated version of the real thing, with an unknown number of successive approximations to the sinusoid (like, step functions rising to .3, .5, .7, 1.0, then down again). I have used the unit to feed into the external power supply to my MS Surface pro, and it worked fine for the last two summers on a fire lookout. As I remember, sometimes it appeared not be charging the batteries in the Surface, but then, later, they would be charged. That might have been a spurious interpretation by the power... » Read More The output is a modified sine wave, though I don't know what it looks like. I picture it being a pixellated version of the real thing, with an unknown number of successive approximations to the sinusoid (like, step functions rising to .3, .5, .7, 1.0, then down again). I have used the unit to feed into the external power supply to my MS Surface pro, and it worked fine for the last two summers on a fire lookout. As I remember, sometimes it appeared not be charging the batteries in the Surface, but then, later, they would be charged. That might have been a spurious interpretation by the power monitor in the computer. Anyway, it was an excellent solution for back-country use. « Show Less
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Pure sine wave will always be the default recommendation, especially for electronics. However there is generally a big cost hit with pure sine wave compared to simulated sine wave. For a unit like a power supply which is quite robust in design, when talking about the quality of power input, a simulated sine wave UPS would be acceptable to use. It is certainly much better than exposing the PSU & your PC to power brownouts.
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It is an amplifier and it should work, but I am not sure the output (in Wattage) will be enough to give you sufficient sound volume to fill a room...depends on the speakers and how many you hook up...it is basically a stereo unit and not surround sound and you may have to get some adapters to hook up your laptop output jacks to the input jacks of the amp. If you like it loud, you may want to get a more powerful unit...that's all I know.
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No plugged it in my pc. The whole reason I bought it, so I wouldn't have to use outlet. So I can't really answer that question with a yes....
1484359
I can't imagine it powering a laptop, don't laptops need way more energy than an iPod or cell phone? I wouldn't recommend trying it. I would say it's a REPLACEMENT for powering off a laptop.
926376
I am not sure, but I think it is a modified sine wave. I thought a pure sine wave inverter would be more expensive.
1286416
It's a pure sine wave output, so there's no difference in the output. the second back up wouldn't know the difference.
2043108
I have this inverter, and my understanding is that it is pure sine wave. I use it to power my entire vacation house on a Caribbean island with no troubles, save for the fact that the vacuum cannot run at the same time as anything else.
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As far as I know it isn't a pure sine wave inverter, but I've charged our laptop with no trouble. It's been great for the price.
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This is just an amplifier so you can use it with or without a DAC. your laptop has a DAC in it which it will call a "sound card" but, for all intents and purposes the words "DAC" and "sound card" mean the same thing. I use a Macbook Air running straight into mine and it sounds great. When I also use a high end USB DAC (a Simaudio D500), it sounds incredible but that starts running into a lot of money.What I would recommend, though, is that you get the Ocean Mini version of the amp. It's about $20 more than the V1 and it's a pure tube amplifier rather than just a tube pre-amp with solid state amplification. This is just an amplifier so you can use it with or without a DAC. your laptop has a DAC in it which it will call a "sound card" but, for all intents and purposes the words "DAC" and "sound card" mean the same thing. I use a Macbook Air running straight into mine and it sounds great. When I also use a high end USB DAC (a Simaudio D500), it sounds incredible but that starts running into a lot of money.What I would recommend, though, is that you get the Ocean Mini version of the amp. It's about $20 more than the V1 and it's a pure tube amplifier... » Read More This is just an amplifier so you can use it with or without a DAC. your laptop has a DAC in it which it will call a "sound card" but, for all intents and purposes the words "DAC" and "sound card" mean the same thing. I use a Macbook Air running straight into mine and it sounds great. When I also use a high end USB DAC (a Simaudio D500), it sounds incredible but that starts running into a lot of money.What I would recommend, though, is that you get the Ocean Mini version of the amp. It's about $20 more than the V1 and it's a pure tube amplifier rather than just a tube pre-amp with solid state amplification. « Show Less