Portable power stations or jump starter

This thread that Bob referred to ^^^^^^^^^^^


A lot of recommendations for the Supercheap 1900 amp jumpstarter.

I have one and it started my previous 4x4 from flat, no hesitation

Normal price is about $200 but if you keep an eye and maybe subscribe to their email thingy, you'll find them on sale occasionally for around $130. They'll probably have a special between now and Christmas.

I'd been made aware of these by the local AutoOne guys, so I checked out the video. Obviously has the grunt required to crank over that beast.

Two things in that video did get my attention:

1. He attached the negative lead to the battery terminal. Best practice is to attach it to the block somewhere convenient, and not too far from the starter motor - to bypass the negative terminal, lead and connection at the block, all of which may have suspect connections that would make starting harder (or impossible).

2. More importantly, once started he removed the jumper positive lead from the vehicle's positive lead terminal while the vehicle battery was still not connected. The battery plays an important part in the regulation/filtering process, so vehicle electrics could easily be exposed to transients, especially the "dump" from the starter motor when it is released.

But the device itself looks the goods.

Zippo I had noticed those things myself not very good practice
I have since looked at the units specs it states diesels up to 3 litre however it has 400cca which I believe in resonable conditions not too cold it should start a landcruiser diesel It started a bt50 diesel no problems at the 4wd show
cheers Steve

Couldn't agree more, never have owned a jump starter battery, but have had a good set of jumper leads for quite some time. Funny thing is, I have only really used them to jump start other people......

It can happen to the best of us. Inadvertently left a door open all day and ran the battery flat.
If the Op is going travelling in isolated places on their own it may be useful but if staying where others are it will be unnecessary.

Not all of us are perfect I have been driving for 58 years and dont profess to be infallible. Having owned over 40 vehicles, I got a few duds that caused amongst other things, battery problems.
Not so long ago had 2 new batteries in the Cruiser and 3 months later it wouldnt start.

Hmm not good, traced to a short in aftermarket wiring so it can happen to anyone.

Battery packs are very useful items for more than just jump starting the car charge phone laptop dvd player etc run electric blower to inflate air mattress inside the tent away from the car emergency lighting even run the fridge at a pinch so it is not just for starting the vehicle especially if the budget can, t run to dual battery systems or the amount of use it will get is too low to consider installing one these are also very portable

Steve

Helena,

I got the 1800 mAh one (not the 1500)

Bob