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One, two, and wireless charging and FM transmitter in the same unit. Let's see how it works
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Dave Taylor here at my car and I'm checking out this. This is the Tecnax transmitter and
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wireless charger FMT-1200BT. It's pretty slick. The bottom part is an FM transmitter and of
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course Tecnax has a ton of FM transmitters. I've got a lot of experience in this space
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And then the top part is a wireless Qi charging system. So between the two you plug it into your
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car lighter or your 12 volt adapter as the case may be. It has a micro USB connection that plugs
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into the base and you are basically good to go. Now one thing they've done that I really like is
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is it a piggyback USB on the top so you can still charge other devices or plug in other devices too
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This doesn't steal and take over the lighter entirely so that's good. Now the FM transmitter
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does 87.6 to 107.9 megahertz running Bluetooth 4.2. Kind of an older version of Bluetooth but
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basically the way this works and grab my phone out of my pocket is your phone pairs with the
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base unit by a Bluetooth and then this converts that into an FM transmission at the frequency
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you specify and then that is what you can pick up on your car radio by just tuning to the right
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frequency. But let's not talk about it let me give you a demo. So let's jump into the car
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Alright so I'm gonna start the car and then I already have this running so it will tell me
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so the Bluetooth device is connected and now we're listening to that here and I can pause
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and play and you can hear it's not a great connection but it's functional and then in
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terms of this all I have to do is put that and I'm good to go. Now if I want I can also use the
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phone or I can just go right back to my music and as you can see whoops on my car I have a pretty
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neat little dial that lets me tune in the frequency so I'll turn that down a little bit
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but it's not bad so let's just listen for a sec. So as you can see it does the wireless charging it does the FM transmission it receives Bluetooth
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once you paired your device so it all works pretty well. It's not flawless the whole FM
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transmission system is sort of inherently kind of poor because they really aren't allowed to
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make it strong enough to give you a really solid signal but if this is all you got this is a whole
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lot better than nothing right and if you have a car that doesn't have an AUX jack or you want to
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have the option maybe you're like renting cars because you're on a road trip or something then
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this does give you some nice options. Now let me tell you it's a 10 watt wireless charger and
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obviously it has a hands-free design we'll come back to that in a second but it includes two LED
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lights that show you charging status it has over voltage over temperature and it even comes with
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an extra fuse if for some reason you blow the fuse there's a way you can replace it so that's
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nice. The gooseneck design obviously gives you a lot of flexibility to maneuver it where you want
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and like I said let me show you the way this works is there's the two little arms that stick
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out so you push that and that opens this up and then you push the back and then it closes so it's
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gonna work with a wide variety of phones so basically you put your phone in and as you push
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your phone down then it is now on the mount and ready to go and ready to wirelessly charge so
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pretty slick now having said that I do wish it was a little stronger I did find that it was a
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little tricky to use and this is super important once you get everything all hooked up and once
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you get the right frequency on both then you want to push the CH button one more time to actually
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get it to start transmitting I had some issues with that it wasn't very clear in the manual so
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I kept thinking this one doesn't work that's strange so finally got it to work but again
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that's something you're gonna want to experiment with a little bit the design is nice but it's a
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very wide suction cup which means there's a lot of places that you won't be able to put it and
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unfortunately if you mounted it on your windshield which is entirely logical then this whole display
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is upside down there is no way to flip this 180 degrees if they did that that would be really
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cool because obviously having it oriented the other way and having your you know phone right
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here and the wireless mount and everything would be really nice but then you realize that this is
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a hardwired 12-volt adapter so this is as long as it gets so if you need more length to have it
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where you want on your windshield versus where your cigarette lighter or 12-volt adapter is then
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you're gonna have to figure out something else probably not a big deal but stuff to know now
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before we get to the price which is the only piece left let me ask if you you can subscribe
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to my channel really appreciate when you do that cool now with its positives and negatives this is
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the Tecnax transmitter and wireless charger FMT 1200 BT and it's $49.99 at amazon.com now if you're
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looking for a wireless charger and an FM transmitter then having them both in the same well-designed
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unit is really a nice feature now if it'll work in your car I would say look and see if you have
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somewhere where you're gonna have a nice flat surface for the overall unit and honestly if you
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had to mount it upside down because it was on the windshield it would only take you a very short
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amount of time to realize that that was okay oh and one more thing it does let you adjust volume
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and change tracks and it also gives you a phone feature which lets you take a phone call and hang
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up on the person now of course it's not doing anything magic so the phone itself is still the
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microphone but the audio from them talking to you is going to come out of your car stereo system via
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the FM transmitter so that's pretty nice definite improvement so that's all I got here this is I'm
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back to my car it's cold so I'm done here which means I'll catch you in my next video
