Product indoors in about a week. I plugged it in while pouring to top off my ZA3 and it worked fantastic…for about two hours.

Fortunately, I was sitting right here so I smelled it when it started smoking – so it didn’t burn down my truck or anything exciting like that. Looks like maybe the internal fuse did NOT blow when the electronics started to fry. Now it has a melted spot on the side and I’m not about to plug it in to see if it still works or not.

I’ve had it about a week and I’ve sent a contact send by e-mail to eForCity through the Amazon contact logic. We’ll see what happens. I’m not going to be very pleased if I end up having to spend money to ship a item back for a replacement. If I get excellent service, then I’ll edit this review and say so. If I don’t get excellent service then I’ll do the same.

EDIT: Well I got a response…sort of. What I got was an send by e-mail with a tracking number showing that the companionship had shipped another unit. No charge, no fuss, no bother and nothing was said about persistent the burnt out unit. I sent the complaint message just before Memorial day, and the send by e-mail with the tracking number of the new unit showed up just after Memorial day. That was sweet instant. At this point, I have NO complaints about the service.

If the replacement lasts a while then I’ll be pleased with that.

EDIT: So I got the replacement and it worked for quite a while, then it quit. I took my multimeter and wedged the tips of the probes to the openings on the back of the fuse and it was blown (no continuity). You can’t reach the fuse with fingers, so I got a pair of huge tweezers and tried to pull it out and it wouldn’t come out. So I tried forceps…still nogo. So I tried small needle-nose pliers and it still wouldn’t come out. Finally I gave up and took it apart (here is a screw under the mark and then it just pops apart. Well…the fuse is soldered to the path board and is not replaceable.

Screw it…I tossed #2 in the junk drawer with #1 and I’m not even going to try to deal with the vendor to get any satisfaction. I estimate if a Chinese product lasts a couple of months we’re held to act like we got our money’s value.

Here are other car chargers on Amazon for a few bucks more. I’ll be ordering one of persons instead of messing with trying to get this POS replaced.

Verdict: I recommend that you NOT buy this.

EDIT: What I finally finished up with is a beefier unit that I found from a vendor on that site with “bay” in the name. It was 18 bucks w/free shipping and has privileged ratings than the unit here. Supposedly rated up to 90w, which considering the power supply that came with my ZA3 is only rated at 30w should be plenty. Input: DC 10v-15v 10a max. Output: 19v 4.7a continuous. Develop: YD190-474. Vendor is dub-dub-dub dot sibusa dot com.

It charges my ZA3 nearer than the unit I bought here (yea, I know – it shouldn’t, but it does), and barely even gets warm. The two other units both got really hot.

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Plug it in, turn on the mainframe, done! It does everything the OEM power brick does, but through a cigarette lighter.

I checked the output voltage of this business, and it’s right at 18 volts. The OEM power brick output is 19 volts. Accurate enough!

The cigarette lighter side gets slightly warm while it has a load on it (charging the battery while the machine is powered on), but I wouldn’t consider it any kind of hazard. It doesn’t get anywhere near as warm as the OEM power brick does.

It just plain works like it is held to. Enough said.

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Bought this for the Acer netbook, and it works! No shorts, no overheating, no incorrect size. Just flat out works!

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