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Kevin
> 24 hourUsually I use the cigarette lighter to pump my car tire. But sometimes the wire is messed up, this portable air pump is so convenient. You can take to any tire position.
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Eric P Gwatney
> 24 hourHave topped off two cars and still have over 80% battery life (most filled just 2-3lbs). But this is where it’ll be used most for me so it’s perfect!
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Veronica Barruzza
> 24 hourWorks very well. Pumped up my truck tire in no time considering it’s compact size! Buttons are a little touchy but that could be because I had (mechanics) gloves on. Very pleased!
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William C. Rogers
> 24 hourNice, small unit. And it shuts off the compressor when tire gets to pressure, so very useful.
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wingclip
> 24 hourI own the TackLife Tire inflator, which only has a 2200 mAh rechargeable battery. It was OK, but it took forever to inflate my 22” SUV tires from 32 PSI to 36 PSI. As far as I was concerned, it was strictly for emergency use and occasionally re-inflating a tire that has lost a few PSI. I searched through Amazon and found the Sunpow inflator to have very good review rating. They also offered a 30% discount coupon. With the discount, I paid less for the Sunpow inflator than I did for the TackLife, (which is no longer available, BTW). The TackLife’s recharging port used a micro-USB connector and it was of a poor construction quality. The port became unusable a few months ago. This meant I could only run the TackLife inflator with the auxiliary cigarette lighter power cable is connected. I was happy to see that the Sunpow’s recharging connector was a much more reliable USB-C port. In addition, the Sunpow inflator has a 7200 mAh battery, which is considerably more than what the TackLife inflator’s 2200 mAh battery. The Sunpow inflator also comes with its own 12v DC cigarette lighter power cable. This allows you to inflate your tire even if the battery power in the Sunpow is low or completely depleted. Like all the portable tire inflators that I’ve read about, the Sunpow inflator cannot be in a recharge mode and operated simultaneously. The Sunpow ad lists everything that it comes with so I won’t go into repeating all that. However, I will say that the size of the Sunpow inflator is 6.5 long x 2.625 wide x 2.5” deep, which would allow it to fit in almost any armrest compartment and certainly in a glovebox. It appeared to be very well-built, had a reasonably good paper manual. It’s easy to operate and has a very intuitive control panel. It also includes an extremely bright LED light, (don’t turn it on while looking at it!). The first thing I did when I unboxed the Sunpow inflator was to read the manual and then I recharged it. When the indicator has a “flashing green light”, it’s almost fully charged. The Sunpow inflator is fully charged when the green light stops flashing. However, a flashing green light indicates a very acceptable battery-powered level and ready to use if you don’t want to wait for the solid-green stage. After I recharge the Sunpow, I took it outside to my SUV. I have a Jeep Grand Cherokee with 22 inch tires and all 4 were at 33 PSI. I wanted to inflate them to 36 PSI. Before connecting the Sunpow to the tire, I first followed the instructions to calibrate the gauge and confirm that the readout displayed ‘zeros’. It’s important to note that the manual instructs to do this before connecting the hose to the inflator. After I did that, I installed the tire inflator hose to the unit which requires pressing down and twisting clockwise until year a “snap” sound. That ensures the hose is attached and locked in to the inflator. The one thing I didn’t like about the Sunpow was the valve-stem connector. The inflator’s valve-stem connector is a screw-on type instead of the quick connect/disconnect valve-stem lock. In addition, you don’t want screw the connector to the valve-stem until after you’ve connected and locked the other end of the fill-hose to the Sunpow inflator first! That’s because the inflator’s hose doesn’t have a check valve to keep the air from rushing out from the tire once it is screwed on to the stem far enough to depress the stem’s valve-core pin. It’s not really a big deal and I found it to be such a little thing that I decided not to reduce my 5-star rating for this inflator. INFLATION RATE COMPARISON: With the TackLife connected to a 12V DC power outlet in the Jeep, and the Sunpow running strictly from its own 7200 mAh battery, I found that the Sunpow brought my tire’s PSI from 33 to 36 in less than 2.5 minutes. In fact, the TackLife took more than 4 times as long to do the same thing! I did expect the Sunpow to out-perform the TackLife inflator because the Sunpow’s battery is almost 4 times stronger. But it takes more than a powerful battery to make that kind of difference. I’m sure the Supow has a much larger compression piston and probably a much faster stroke-cycle per second than the TackLife inflator. I strongly recommend the Sunpow portable, rechargeable, inflator to anyone. The Sunpow inflator is an excellent, ‘must have’, tool to keep in your vehicle, especially for long travel plans such as vacation destinations. I stand behind the 5-Star rating that it deserves. Rich
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ROBERT E WASHINGTON
> 24 hourI did receive the air pump I ordered. It is a very compact little device. I have used it and it works great. Being compact, i can carry it in my bike bag when I go riding.
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gofurbroke
> 24 hourI had a small roofing nail in one tire, and couldnt get to repair shop till a couple days , it wasnt flat all the way but did need air ,worked really well, and lawn mower tire needed air too ,this is really so handy .
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Traci Hancock
> 24 hourThis little air compressor is mighty. When you take it out of the box and look at it you think wow this is small and it will take a while to air a truck tire up. My truck tire had 12 lbs in it and in about 3 minutes it was up to 29 where it was supposed to be. I did not charge it when we first received it. I hooked it to the tire with no power cord attached and it had no problem airing the tire up. I give this 5 stars. You will be surprised how well it works. Great portable air pump to have with you for a trip or any other time you need some air in something. Very easy to use and understand. Be aware you will need a phone charger adapter. One doesnt come with it (for the price I think it should). And it would be nice if it and a little more substantial case to protect it.
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Niki Topski
> 24 hourMy review is based on the charged/wireless aspect of this product, NOT the car plug in aspect. Overall the controls and settings are extremely chaotic and hard to navigate. Less should be more with a gadget like this. It also shows settings depending on what your pumping up but I see no change in psi based on those settings. The same amount of air is pushed under the basketball setting as it is for the car setting so, again, too much to look at when it has one job. The battery also didnt make sense, it flashed green for hours so I assumed it had been charged the whole time and finally unhooked it. I then proceeded to use it on a Christmas decoration, a 24 blow up bulb meant to be a lawn decoration. I sat for a solid 20 mins waiting for it to inflate whats the equivalent to a big beach ball (of same material) and it never fully inflated. I gave up, assuming I may have done something wrong. I tried again a second time but manually squeezed the valve tight and it then took maybe 15-18 minutes to inflate rather than 20 and maybe 5 minutes into that it flashed low battery. So, I got all of two uses out of it at fully charged. Maybe itll be more useful for smaller things like bike tires or sports but having something at that price it would be outrageous to have this just for a football or bike tire when a manual pump would suffice and probably work faster.
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1 Ca. truck driver
> 24 hourJust what I needed to get my fat tire e-bike ready for riding. The pump has some weight to it, but it sure is more convenient than searching for AIR at a gas station. No issues so far. Happy I made this purchase.