Temu legitimate website or scam?

[QuarterMillionMan]

Yes lots of travelling for work. Will pop my hood, run an extension cord in order to heat up my tupperware. I also like to drink hot tea after my meal so 2 birds with 1 stone. Looking at 5 days a week using the power inverter and microwave on the road.

[QuarterMillionMan]

I just thought of something else and using a printer if needed (ie, consent forms, affidavits, etc).

[disneysteve]

If it has a continuous output of 1,500 W, and your microwave is 1,000 W, then yes it will.

Personally I've never used an inverter. I have used a small power bank, but I doubt it would do what you need. There are larger power banks, but they are $600-$1200.

We have an inverter. It plugs into the cigarette lighter and allows us to plug in regular plugs while in the car. We used to use it when we drove to Florida to plug in an electric cooler, charge electronics, plug in my laptop, etc. I don't know what sort of load it can handle. Maybe not something like a microwave.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Currently I eat my lunch cold on the road out of an Igloo 6 pack cooler. Microwaving a hot lunch is a huge step up. I even thought about a toaster to make fresh hot sandwiches or even a toaster oven to reheat Dominos or Pizza Hut slices of pizza. Life will be so much better than eating cold meals.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Update: The inverter works amazingly well with my 1000 watt microwave oven. I'm impressed with it. In 1:33 minutes it boiled a cup of tap water to piping hot. Toaster and toaster oven works fine too. I also tried plugging in a 1000 watt heating iron to boil water and in 1 minute the water was in a rolling boil. I don't own a Keurig but I'm sure it would run as well. My microwave oven is a massive beast so now I'll go out and buy a smaller microwave oven with maybe 700 watts or 800 watts and doesn't have to be 1000 watts. Pretty amazing thing.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Went to Home Depot to get this new $59 Magic Chef 700-Watt microwave. Low power so took 3 minutes to boil a cup of water but works great. Purell hand sanitizer for comparison purposes. And $105 Tataliken power inverter with dual fans to cool the unit which ran whisper quiet and smoothly and it has a digital display which showed 10.4 volts being used off the 12-volt battery. I'm impressed how good it works. The glass mug is on the center console which was piping hot water. Looking forward to hot lunches while on the road or hot coffee & teas or toasted sandwiches or reheating pizzas, or making cup noodles, etc.

[disneysteve]

So you’re going to keep your car idling while you cook lunch? That’s terrible for the environment, wasteful on gas, and actually illegal in many places.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Nope, the engine does not need to be running. And it takes all but 3 minutes to heat up water or reheat my food so not much drain on my battery. I guess the engine could be turned on for more power to the inverter but I haven't tried it with the engine running.

[disneysteve]

Nope, the engine does not need to be running. And it takes all but 3 minutes to heat up water or reheat my food so not much drain on my battery. I guess the engine could be turned on for more power to the inverter but I haven't tried it with the engine running.

So you’re using your car battery to cook. I hope you carry an emergency jump starter as well as the inverter.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Good call, I never leave home without it. Anything else, lol.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Should I notify Temu that I received the $104 power inverter and return the $5 credit? Temu's policy is if an item is late Temu gives a $5 credit. In fact, I gave a good review to the seller saying that I use a microwave in my car to heat up food with the power inverter. I guess the delivery person didn't scan the item upon delivering it to me.

To show our sincerity, we have given a $5.00 credit to your account. You can then track the shipping status of your order with your tracking number.

We greatly appreciate your patience and continuing support.

Thank you again for shopping with Temu!

[james.hendrickson]

QMM - sorry to be a bug here...and I'm still hung up on the whole wiring a microwave to your car thing.

I mean, its great you can figure out the engineering aspects of that - I could not have done that...and what's your thinking regarding the Microwave? You just wanted the ability to cook in your car?

[QuarterMillionMan]

Yes James the microwave is mainly to heat up my food in my car. And for boiling water in my car for hot tea or freeze-dried coffee or hot chocolate, I use this exact electric heating iron which boils water faster than a microwave. It takes 1 minute with this iron which I think I got on Temu but cannot find on Temu anymore. On a side note a young woman at work didn't know freeze-dried coffee existed, lol. In Mexico about a year ago at a nice restaurant when I ordered coffee they served me a cup of hot water with a bottle of Sanka. I started buying Sanka again after this experience.

[james.hendrickson]

Yes James the microwave is mainly to heat up my food in my car. And for boiling water in my car for hot tea or freeze-dried coffee or hot chocolate, I use this exact electric heating iron which boils water faster than a microwave. It takes 1 minute with this iron which I think I got on Temu but cannot find on Temu anymore. On a side note a young woman at work didn't know freeze-dried coffee existed, lol. In Mexico about a year ago at a nice restaurant when I ordered coffee they served me a cup of hot water with a bottle of Sanka. I started buying Sanka again after this experience.

QMM - let me think about this for a minute - is it cheaper on a per cup basis to get drip ground and make it at home, or is cheaper to get freeze dried coffee brands?

I mean the usual rule of thumb is that more "convenient" products generally cost more on a unit basis.

[QuarterMillionMan]

I never thought of it as to which is cheaper. I'm guessing it is cheaper to use drip ground coffee at home vs freeze dried Sanka. However, in my car brewing a cup of drip ground coffee may be difficult to clean especially if the filter folds over and the coffee grounds spill over. Sanka is so easy to make in my car that even if it costs more per cup it is worth it IMHO.