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highly recommended |
Excellent portable power source 
This model is designed for car emergencies (it has a trouble light, jump starts a dead battery with its own suppplied very high quality cables and will inflate a tire), but we bought it for camping trips so we could power a regular fan on hot days and recharge our cell phones. It did both very well--running a good size fan for about an hour a day for five days and recharging four cell phones daily. Its a big lead acid battery in the shape of an old eighties boom box. Because it is essentially a car battery, it is fairly heavy (@ 23 lbs), but it has two sockets rigged to an inverter for AC devices and a standard car DC input. It charges up much faster than it says to expect from a wall socket--just a few hours, and is said to do so faster direct from the car; you get adapters to do both. We will keep it out in the open in case the power goes out. A great investment.
Peace of Mind
I am a single older lady and the Xantrex XPower Powerpack does everything that it advertised. It is simple in design. I charged the unit and put it in my trunk. I know if I have a dead battery or flat tire, I will be able to fix the problem without help. I check the battery to make sure I always have a full charge.
Does it's job.
It's a nice little item that lives up to it's promises. I bought it as a second unit to the 5200. The addition of the compressor is great; this one is better suited to carry in a vehicle. It is also great to use as power in a second room in the house (for lighting, etc.) during a power failure. For me, it is much better than having to deal with a gas powered generator.
Very good product. 
I've had one of these units for about a year. It's been very useful. Jump started my (seldom used) full size pickup truck twice, my wife's Honda Civic once. Also used the 120VAC outlet to make smoothies with a blender, just for fun. Plenty of power. A couple of shortcomings... The air compressor has very small capacity (high pressure but low flowrate). Works fine for filling basketballs and footballs. But, when I tried to use it to blow up my daughter's inflatable wading pool...forget it. It would have taken hours...was much faster blowing it up the old fashioned way. Also, the jumper cables are kind of short. You have to balance the (heavy) unit somewhere in engine compartment, in close proximity to the battery, so that the clamps will reach the battery terminals.
adequate 
Battery life with very minor load excellent. Have not used it to jump start any thing yet and frankly don't think it will cut it. AC outlets trip off with small loads.
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