Customer Reviews

Incase 2-amp Car Charger for iPad/iPhone/iPod - Black

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When these work, they're fantastic. Nothing charges an iPhone faster, and there's plenty of juice for your iPad.

However, I've burned through three of these in two months, and not just in one car. These are HIGHLY unreliable, and they shine a very poor light on InCase's otherwise strong products. Each one of the three ended its life by getting very hot, then popping, and then smoking. They're almost too hot to touch when this happens, and they fill your car with the smell of burned electronics. They're absolutely beautifully designed, and very poorly executed. Please, stay away from these until InCase figures out what the problem is here. Look at the reviews also on [...]; they'll tell you the same thing.

Just picked this charger up from the Apple store on my way out of town so that I could use my iPad while on the road. First try and both my front and rear cigarette lighters are blown and unusable by this as well my old iPhone charger. This is ridiculous! Do not buy this product. A quick search on the Internet yielded similar testimonials; just wish I had had time to do my research before.. I will be returning it as soon as i get home.

We purchased this from another site, prior to taking a long driving trip in a rented car. It worked well enough in that car - we used it for perhaps 10 hours or so.

After the trip, however, we tried to use it in our own car - and nothing worked. We thought the outlets in the car (front and back) had gone bad. Did some digging however and found that the fuses for those sockets had burned out. I replaced them, plugged in the iPod charger, and INSTANTLY the fuses were burned out again. Tried it yet another time, same thing. So now we have a useless device. Although the circuits in question have 15 and 20 amp fuses, and this device is rated at 2 amps, apparently there's some sort of surge when it's plugged in, and that's enough to blow the fuses.

this product is a total piece of crap, and the company is incredibly difficult when it comes to exchantes/refunds. i'm basically having to eat the cost after 2 of these that did not work, and i'm incredibly disappointed. i will not buy another incase product, ever.

This is the best car charger for the iPhone you cab buy. Works very well - has a lite indicating so, and feels like a soft glove. I highly recommend it.

I've had two of these adapters.

The first blew out the cigarette lighter fuse in my car, and the unit itself malfunctioned so that the central contact button would not pop up.

I exchanged that unit for a second one. The second unit repeatedly blew fuses out in my car about half the time I'd connect my iPad. I attributed the problem to the car, not the unit. However, recently I charged my iPhone (which requires less power) and the unit began shorting out everything in the car. The GPS screen would flash on and off, and the dash lights would go out. Removing the unit from my cigarette lighter caused all of the flashing to stop.

I took out the unit, threw it away, and replaced it with one made by Scosche. That unit works like a charm, and will charge BOTH an iPad AND an iPhone at the same time, without a single blown fuse.

Steer clear of this Incase unit.

Mine seems to work.
Seeing all the negative reviews here makes me afraid to use mine.
Well, I opened up mine and it looks like there's a switching power supply, DC to DC converter inside. There's a sticker that you can remove to reveal two USB jacks.

I did notice a smell when I had mine opened up....
I hope its just everyone else.

Review date: 4/8/2011, purchase date: 5/23/2011