Jump starter pack or second battery

G'day, what do you plan to use it for? Makes a huge difference in the choice.........

If only for emergency use, I would get a Jump Starter pack, much easier and cheaper to buy and set up. Just make sure it has enough oomph to start the Paj......... good luck.

If looking at the SCA ones, then ensure you get the 1900 amp type, it has the power to cope ok.

I use that and a smaller 900 amp one to run a special light and glue guns for work, the 900 is good for 1/2 a day, the 1900 all day and more.

The small one won't turn the Ranger over fast enough the start it if flat, the 1900 could start it a couple of times I reckon.
They say charge them after a jump start is done.

The 1900 will run my fridge for a day and a half if I need.

Hi Ian,

Buy a second Paj battery and have it bolted down in the camper. Charge it off your solar panels. If the main start battery does not start the vehicle.
Move the fully charged battery from the camper to the starting battery position in the vehicle. Put the flat battery back into the camper, charging from the solar panels.
A jump starter pack still needs to be fully charged to be of any use in the vehicle starting area.

Just our 2 cents' worth.

Cheers,
Wayne & Sally.

I have both, but if I were doing it again, I wouldn't go to the vast expense of a dual battery system in the car, as there is also one in the camper. Next time around I'd just take the jump starter. I bought a 1200 amp from Repco for $100-odd and it starts my diesel Pajero just fine.

It also tends to get used to run lights away from the camp for eating or food prep etc for maybe an hour or so a night, so satisfies the double use test.

Main reason I get flat batteries is because someone leaves a door open in the Pajero and those nice handy (not) little lights that shine down from the bottom of the door all come on without you seeing them and flatten the battery unbelievably quickly. Not so bad at night, when you can see the pool of light, but during the day it's an absolute killer. Not sure how we survived without these for the previous 100 years or who the Rhodes Scholar was that decided they were a good idea. After the 3rd time, they were all removed!

Paul