Has anybody lost this ?

If so it might cost you a fine to get it back.






Last weekends little 4wd adventure took the form of driving down a massively overgrown track towards a beach near Inverloch Victoria.

It was not quite wide enough for the car and consisted of dozens of sawn off ends of tea tree branches covered in bits re-growth which prevented you from seeing the sawn off ends.

Probably should have expected that as there was a disused road closed sign at the start but gates were open and tyre tracks were somewhat fresh.

I was taking it glacially slow after the first 1/2 dozen rear vision mirror flick backs but then the occasional deep rut would throw you offline and make one forever thankful that the cars a few years old now .

Thanks to electric chainsaws, we got to what was once an old carpark lined with heavy concrete bollards about 300m from the beach which was as far as I figured you could legally go and so we set off on foot to walk to the very remote beach.


While exploring on foot I noticed this object just off the actual beach and figured it must have been washed up and junk.

Imagine my surprize when I pressed a button and it lit up and its voltmeter read 13.

Can't have been there very long as a careful look shows that rust has started to form on
some screws on the front panel.

So the only reason for it to be there was to start a car but there was no access to where it was.

One battery clamp had come off and I could only presume it was used in a hurry and abandoned.

Past the bollards at the end of the track where I had left my car the track disappeared in huge holes and scrub and I considered it seriously undriveable, but who knows, and so the jump starters presence is a mystery.


As a side point I have always wondered how a device like this could claim 900 amps.
I took it home, opened it up and found that it had no special hi-tech anything inside it just your regular 17AH sealed lead acid and no amount of spin could ever make it deliver 900 AMPs for even a second.