Customer Reviews

Eureka E! Power Pak for N!ergy Tents

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Positives
Noiseless power anywhere. With the addition of a 110 invertor, you can run most any gadget without worrying about finding an outlet.
Compact size. Too heavy by far for backpacking, car campers will love this if they've always wanted to be able to run their computers in their tents. Or tailgaters who have a TV to hook up and only a small spot left to pack in power.

Negatives
Eureka customer service. Don't expect them to respond to questions posed via email and be prepared to wait a while for phone support.
Very small charge in the end. It takes 8 hours (when using your wall outlet) to charge and less than an hour to drain. They don't mention that part in any of the pre-purchase materials. If you are running a laptop off of it, expect just under an hour. If you are running a TV, plan on 30-45 minutes, depending on the size (13 or 15 inch). Power tools get about 15 minutes. All that is spelled out clearly on the paperwork you get only after you buy.

Summary
If you are looking to power a small lamp or fan in your tent or be able to re-charge your cell phone, this works fine. If you want to use it for laptops, digital cameras and such, plan on getting less than an hour of power for an all night charge.

We purchased this battery to go with our Eureka tent which has the plug-ins. It charged fast and for us easily lasted a weekend, although we only used it at night. It has a light which tells you when it's charging, charged and a push button to turn it on and off.
It does not come with any cords. You have to supply the cord or plug-in which is a cigarette lighter type connection.

In our case, the tent came supplied with a cord which extended through a special slot to the outside of the tent so you could sit the battery right outside the door.

This is good for using any type of 12 volt accessory such as a flashlight, DVD player, cell phone charger, or maybe a game player although I am not sure how long it would last with anything that draws much power.

We have an inverter which plugs into our truck which technically could probably recharge this battery, but I did not try that and would need to check the safety guidelines to see if that is recommended or not, but it worked great for us.

We bought this with the light and fan kit for the Eureka Nergy tent. We used the lights each night for four nights, and the battery was still full when we were done. It was nice because we had no electricity where we were.

I really like this power pak. It's light weight and small. I have only used it a few times but it works very well.

Power pak work greats with the N!ergy tents and last for a while running light items: lights, fans, airpump. Well worth the price.

The unit failed after 2 years of intermittent usage. The battery recently showed low voltage when measured with a DVM,
and would not charge to 12V. The input transformer is not fused and the primary burned out when the last charge was attempted.