Friday, May 30, 2014 at 20:32
No, not first hand experience. The next best thing though. I searched this site:
"A lady travelling throgh had stopped to go to the loo and car would not start - battery was stuffed internally and basically no voltage when trying to crank.
A guy around at the time said "hang on - I've got a jump start kit" and brought it out of the box that was proudly advertising a "gazillion cranking amps" as all good sales advertising does.
Well if it had more than about a 7AH Sealed Lead Acid battery in the thing based on size of the box I would have been surprised and the connecting leads would have got very warm with any serious current draw.
Did it crank the car ??? I think we got an "mmmmph!!" out of it and that was it.
Like the computer speakers you get claiming they are 400 Watts in a case the size of a matchbox, they find ways of exagerating the ability of these devices badly in the marketing department - eventually you might find something like "peak power for 1 micro second" written on the box.
I think the
information Oldtrack posted sums it up with the origin and poor translation of the language - the old addage "if it's seems too good to be true, it probably is".
No-one had anything good to say about them.
Bob
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