When were these manufactured? That may be important because 2 years ago there was a recall on the jumper cables that were packed with these. Are these post-recall?
@iwilsker@salaosantiago-You do know that should you fail to get any cables, you can still possibly get this jump starter at MorningSave.com, but you have to wait 5-7 days?
@narfcake The list may be longer than that, as starting a 6 or 8 cylinder with just 250 CCA seems a bit ambitious, especially if we’re talking the middle of winter with a stone cold engine and dead battery.
@kuoh Yeah, no arguments about that. It’s just that in writing 4, 6, and 8, it’s like excluding those with 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 12, and 16 cylinder vehicles.
@narfcake Less liability and fewer complaints if your vehicle doesn’t have the compatible number of cylinders or voltage, like selling something that’s only Windows Phone compatible today.
@aarond12 Some use a separate battery, some convert down from the main pack. And some are just SOL when they discover their auction Tesla has had its pack removed.
@ColeSloth@ryanbruce@salaosantiago
Interesting - I am not picking up the Cyntur because it does not use USB to charge. I don’t want to have to take out my powerbank from my car to charge it - I would rather charge it using USB-C or USB-A-MicroUSB. My concern with the Suaoki is the brand and the quality. At least I know the Cyntur one is made by the same people that make the Duracell jump starters. Looks like I am still stuck looking for a better portable jump starter.
@makhay I received a different brand as a gift a few years ago, and that one doesn’t have USB charging although it did come with it’s own “cigarette lighter” style charger. Admittedly it is less convenient in that you have more stuff rolling around the passenger side floor board, but maybe something to look for while shopping.
These devices are seriously handy. I don’t have one of this brand, but I do have a couple of others, one for each vehicle. Have used both, with great results, several times. I still carry my jumper cables, but they are buried in the recesses of my trunk/tool box. Haven’t needed them since I bought these.
@phendrick Important – these might not be powerful enough to revive a flat out dead battery, but they are good when the battery is somewhat alive, adding enough kick to start the engine.
Also, great for a motorcycle with no kick-start (like most nowadays). [Previous sentence reminded me of this.]
@NolmNotNSA
I have a couple of old quads/dirtbikes that don’t get a lot of use and seem to eat batteries even if I leave them plugged into a battery tender. These jump starters are great for that application.
@phendrick Even my 110-volt electronic “smart” jump-starter/battery charger from Harbor Freight [although in truth using "smart electronics and HF in the same sentence may automatically make said sentence an oxymoron] won’t start or charge a car/truck with a truly dead/drained battery.
OTOH, my non-solid-state “brute force” starter-charger will often still bring it back from the brink of death.:
Kind of a:
situation.
@iwilsker What do you plug into the port? Because I don’t see any chargers pictured or listed. Some of the reviews I read said theirs came without a charger. @decoratedwarvet What instructions? Is there a link I missed?
@Khaztr these are made for those instances where you left your lights on when you went to the movies and you come out the power licks still works and starter clicks but battery dead.
Not for when battery so dead you can’t even unlock the car via remote and sadly some people who don’t really know much about these are buying these are going to find that out the hard way this winter
Unblame: meh, I asked you to sell a jump starter and you did - for that I am grateful.
Blame: meh, I actually meant something with enough power to jump start a DEAD battery in a 4 cyl car - perhaps I was not specific enough with my request. For this, all responsibility lies with @lichme! Damn GoaT!
p.s. can you sell these magnets?
I bought something similar, called “ChargeIt! Jump Power Pack & Jump Starter” from Meh several years ago. $48.
I use it to eek out the battery on my motorcycle. Sport bikes eat through batteries and for me, parking outside in the elements, I get one winter out of a battery before it starts being very unreliable. With the little portable jump starter, I’ve gone more than 3 years on one battery. I don’t have to worry about whether it will start or not or what the temperature is anymore. If it’s struggling, I MAKE IT START. So ner, crappy 12 volt batteries.
Definitely worth the cost if you are in my scenario. I’ve never once used the flashlight or charged anything else. Just jump-started the hell out of my motorcycle.
@lera I had that same pack. It didn’t have reverse polarity protection, and one day a lady couldn’t start her Oldsmobile at a gas station I was at. I said hey I’ve got this thing, let me help you.
She popped the hood and of course this car has the battery relocated to the trunk and just had a binding post up front. Somehow because I was flustered (I promise I’m generally mechanically inclined and electrically knowledgeable) I must have reversed the cables. There was a big spark and the pack started swelling, fast.
I threw it in the street to get it away from the pumps, sensing an impending lipo explosion. I was kind of excited that I was going to get to see one in person. It smoked for a bit but did not explode.
I’ve replaced the pack since and learned that reverse polarity protection is a valuable feature. RIP Chargeit Jump.
We don’t use this brand, but these little jump starters are awesome! We use them on diesel engines in equipment in the yard, most of them are three and four cylinders, so it kinda fits the description!
@fuzzmanmatt I know, right? I’m a mechanic; when I first saw one of these I laughed. No way that a little hand held battery with 14 gauge wire is going to start a dead car… I don’t understand how these things can deliver enough amps to crank a car engine without melting the little clamps and thin wires they are attached to, but they work.
I purchased an Energizer brand thinking I may as well get the best, or a 1st tier brand. Well, this will crank my Cub Cadet & John Deere when the batteries are low, BUT they had better crank because if they don’t on two seperate, and adjusted attempts, Forget About It!! It’s time to charge the Energizer jump starter!
This thing appears to have some weird proprietary charging port. With 12,000 mAh, anything less than a USB-C input will make it take many hours to recharge.
This product is Awesome! I’ve used it twice already - luckily - not on my car - but it’s great. Yes, it will start an 6 cylinder car (I know because it started a Ford Explorer).
@CHURCHGIRL123 Amazing amount of power for such a small unit huh? The first one I saw was when a neighbor helped me jump start my car. I got one awhile back that is a little more beefy than this one, but Imma fan now.
What the heck is a big ad doing right in the middle of the story write up for this? The ad on mine is sitting right after the farmer arrives. Can’t these stupid things be moved to below it or above it and not in the middle of it? Didn’t used to be that way.
@compunaut first for something that I think a cookie for reading an article snagged me and then, when I clicked that to go away and refreshed the page, one for something I had looked at on an online store. F’ing cookies. No wait, also f’ing person who coded that page to allow them there!!!
@Kidsandliz Cookies don’t work like that. They are only set or sent at the beginning of the page request in the headers, before you even receive the page data. It was kind of an issue back in the bad old days as a neophyte web developer where you had to make sure you didn’t start outputting any content before headers were sent or your cookies wouldn’t get sent either. Cookies are not malicious by themselves, they’re just for keeping/passing along data to the same site.
@tmilker OK. I don’t know how they work other than visit many sites and then get internet bombed with ads from those sites.I was annoying to have the ad show up in the middle of the home page write up of the product rather than elsewhere on the page. That is the only reason why I am complaining.
@caffeine_dude@MegaHenzoid So I downloaded malwarebytes mac free version and scanned. It said my computer is clean. Is there some other program I should scan with too or is this one good enough?
@Kidsandliz MalwareBytes can report it clean even if your browser’s search engine preference has been changed. If your default search engine is something weird - and you can’t change it - you still may have been infected. Go to System Preferences. If you see a Profiles icon (and your machine is a personal machine not being managed by a legitimate program like JAMF), then you’ve probably been infected.
@brakeforbeer My default is safari. I opened system preferences for the computer (and for good measure preferences for safari) and nothing looks different. I’d see a profiles icon when the page comes up with all the ions when I open system preferences if there is a problem?
@Kidsandliz In the exploit I’m familiar with, a Profiles icon was added (to the other icons) in System Preferences. Deleting the individual Device Profiles contained inside the Profiles icon then allowed the user to change their browser home page. With the Device Profiles present, the browser home page was grayed out (and couldn’t be changed).
“Can start 4, 6 and 8 cylinder engines” isn’t terribly useful. Generally jumper packs list the maximum displacement for gas/diesel that they can reasonably start. An 8 cylinder engine could be 4L or could it could be 9+L… Likewise, I’m sure many smaller jumperpacks that can start small V6’s would struggle with my car.
@frankenstein As long as it has overcharge protection built in, sure.
The good thing about lipo packs,though, is that they do not self discharge quickly. A charged pack will stay charged for months in your glovebox or trunk. Check it before summer and winter and charge when necessary, and you’re good.
I feel like Tammy and the blond from that 2014 Geico commercial who asked why don’t they get in the running car instead of hiding in the dark cornfield or behind the chainsaws should get their own horror movie. The plot would be as soon as the mayham begins, they knock all their idiot friends out, load them in the cars and drive them to safety. Would not be very scary, but would be very satisfying. And maybe one or two friends could give them a hard time, run anyway so it would be suspenseful if Tammy/blond or the boogieman gets to them first.
/image Geico hide behind the chainsaws
I hope that someone with VW Phaeton buys one of these jump starters and successfully uses it just to show the Meh copywriters that they’re full of shit.
Honestly, I’d be more worried about someone trying to start a big V8 Diesel engine with it in the dead of Winter… that little battery isn’t going to stand a chance.
I got mine today, and here’s what I know: the packaging is seriously top-notch, and it shipped almost fully charged. It came with a nice padded case to put the unit and AC plug in, but I don’t think the jumper cable piece will fit in there (and maybe that’s by design). The jumper cable connector is keyed, so you can only put it in one way (which I expected, but somebody mentioned polarity questions).
It says it can fully recharge itself from completely dead on the AC plug in 4 hours. I am a bit concerned about where in my car to keep it to avoid overheating it in the summer, though. I think the trunk might be cooler than the cabin on a hot sunny day with the windows closed…I’ll have to check into that.
As for the unit, it appears to be well built. I’m just hoping that it has enough power if we ever need it—all of our cars are 6 cylinder, so I’m guessing we’ll be fine.
@Yelnic There’s really no need to constantly charge it in the car as long as you’re not also using it as a power bank. Trying to charge these in extremes of heat or cold is more detrimental than just letting them sit. Just check and recharge every 3 to 6 months depending on your comfort level. These do not self discharge anywhere near as fast as the old lead acid battery jumper packs.
I feel like “I need to find some new friends.” should be the new Meh slogan
best.
nipple-clamps.
ever.
@alacrity I can think of soooo many people to use these on!
@alacrity-These aren’t Tazers!!
@decoratedwarvet I know- it’s the “up-close & personal” thing that makes it fun. Or I guess you could throw it…
When were these manufactured? That may be important because 2 years ago there was a recall on the jumper cables that were packed with these. Are these post-recall?
https://www.battery-biz.com/pages/cyntur-recall
@iwilsker these are post recall, yes. Double checked it myself today
@iwilsker Thanks for the link! I hadn’t heard about that and smoked the cables on mine. Now I don’t have to order this one.
@iwilsker @salaosantiago-You do know that should you fail to get any cables, you can still possibly get this jump starter at MorningSave.com, but you have to wait 5-7 days?
BAHAHAHA
I don’t understand. Where’s the docking area for my phone, and where does the sound come out?
Can this thing also jump-start a human heart? Asking for a friend.
@ShotgunX the friend with a pacemaker?
@ShotgunX-No, you have to use your wife’s pink Tazer for that!!
@decoratedwarvet @ShotgunX the pink “Tazer” that your wife stores in the nightstand, no matter what she’s told you, has other uses.
I guess BMW Isetta, Citroen 2CV, Geo Metro, Volvo 850, Dodge Viper, Mercedes S600, and Bugatti Veyron owners are SOL?
@narfcake anyone who buys a Citroen is out of luck
@narfcake Not to mention the 5 cylinder VWs & Audis
@CraigDanger
@narfcake The list may be longer than that, as starting a 6 or 8 cylinder with just 250 CCA seems a bit ambitious, especially if we’re talking the middle of winter with a stone cold engine and dead battery.
KuoH
@kuoh Yeah, no arguments about that. It’s just that in writing 4, 6, and 8, it’s like excluding those with 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 12, and 16 cylinder vehicles.
@narfcake Less liability and fewer complaints if your vehicle doesn’t have the compatible number of cylinders or voltage, like selling something that’s only Windows Phone compatible today.
KuoH
@kuoh I think they have <0% market share now.
@narfcake let’s not forget the also-ineligible 5 cylinder versions of the Chevy Colorado and Hummer H3.
Also, I’d like to see the Venn diagram of Bugatti Veyron owners and Meh shoppers, just for science.
@djslack MB OM617 too.
As for the Venn:
@narfcake You forgot about zero-cylinder cars too. Many electric vehicles still use a 12V battery to run the regular electronics.
@narfcake Buy two and hook them up in series?
@aarond12 Some use a separate battery, some convert down from the main pack. And some are just SOL when they discover their auction Tesla has had its pack removed.
@woo545 In series, that’ll mean 24V.
@narfcake @woo545 No, that would give you 24v. To double the power at 12v, you would connect them in parallel.
@kuoh @narfcake I have a 5 cylinder truck and a Windows Phone, can I use this?
@Froggy
/giphy divide by zero
@Froggy @narfcake
So you’re saying that there’s a chance.
Manufacturer’s YouTube promotional video (1 minute)
GREAT… Except there’s a similar one with over 250 reviews and a higher star rating being sold on amazon already for the exact same price.
@ColeSloth prove it (link)
@ColeSloth @salaosantiago he’s likely talking about one of these two:
https://www.amazon.com/Starter-Lithium-Charger-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B07D1NS1VJ/ ($38)
https://www.amazon.com/Suaoki-Starter-Battery-Booster-Engines/dp/B074V6579M ($45 after 10% coupon)
I’m interested in the latter since it also has a USB-C port on it and has an add’l 100 peak amps; both are more than the one being sold today by Meh.
@ColeSloth @ryanbruce @salaosantiago If $38 is more than $39, then yes, both are higher than the one today!!
@ColeSloth @decoratedwarvet @ryanbruce @salaosantiago He meant higher peak amps not higher price
@ColeSloth @ryanbruce @salaosantiago
Interesting - I am not picking up the Cyntur because it does not use USB to charge. I don’t want to have to take out my powerbank from my car to charge it - I would rather charge it using USB-C or USB-A-MicroUSB. My concern with the Suaoki is the brand and the quality. At least I know the Cyntur one is made by the same people that make the Duracell jump starters. Looks like I am still stuck looking for a better portable jump starter.
@makhay I received a different brand as a gift a few years ago, and that one doesn’t have USB charging although it did come with it’s own “cigarette lighter” style charger. Admittedly it is less convenient in that you have more stuff rolling around the passenger side floor board, but maybe something to look for while shopping.
@ColeSloth
Pretty suspect reviews:
My midsize sedans is 2.4L which is suitable to this Suaoki to jump start.
My car was old battery working not very well sometimes,this small Sialkot cable was working for my car , easy small for personal and family,!
Looks like review padding to me.
@ColeSloth @jimgar Per Review Meta: https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B07D1NS1VJ
&
https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B074V6579M
@ColeSloth @jimgar VS- for Meh product: https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B01IDD8GW4
FYI
My energizer unit bought from here a while ago still works
@Bayamonprieto77 Yes I have one of those too. Looks like ours might be a bit better than this one?
@Kidsandliz Im willing to agree. This one is tempting though
@Bayamonprieto77 My Energizer Heh
“GREG, now a full-blown, werewolf runs after them, followed by the creepy LITTLE GIRL.”
/giphy comma fail
@stinks Stupid is as Stupid does!!
Well, Meh, jump-start August for me.
These devices are seriously handy. I don’t have one of this brand, but I do have a couple of others, one for each vehicle. Have used both, with great results, several times. I still carry my jumper cables, but they are buried in the recesses of my trunk/tool box. Haven’t needed them since I bought these.
@phendrick Important – these might not be powerful enough to revive a flat out dead battery, but they are good when the battery is somewhat alive, adding enough kick to start the engine.
Also, great for a motorcycle with no kick-start (like most nowadays). [Previous sentence reminded me of this.]
@phendrick This is 100% true. I have the smaller engizer ones to try and help someone with a dead battery it didn’t even cough.
I had to pull out my $150 heavy duty jumpstarter and her car started right up.
@NolmNotNSA
I have a couple of old quads/dirtbikes that don’t get a lot of use and seem to eat batteries even if I leave them plugged into a battery tender. These jump starters are great for that application.
@phendrick Even my 110-volt electronic “smart” jump-starter/battery charger from Harbor Freight [although in truth using "smart electronics and HF in the same sentence may automatically make said sentence an oxymoron] won’t start or charge a car/truck with a truly dead/drained battery.
OTOH, my non-solid-state “brute force” starter-charger will often still bring it back from the brink of death.:
Kind of a:
situation.
This is where I got my recommendation for these: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-portable-jump-starter/
How do I recharge this bad boy?
@BGreider There is a charging port adjacent to the USB port:
[http://www.mustangandfords.com/news/1505-cyntur-jumperpack-mini-can-save-your-day/photo-05.html][1]
http://www.mustangandfords.com/news/1505-cyntur-jumperpack-mini-can-save-your-day/photo-05.html
@BGreider- I know this sounds strange but , maybe, READ THE INSTUCTIONS!! I’m just saying,…
@iwilsker What do you plug into the port? Because I don’t see any chargers pictured or listed. Some of the reviews I read said theirs came without a charger.
@decoratedwarvet What instructions? Is there a link I missed?
Never heard of a car that can start off of 250 cranking amps. Maybe a motorcycle.
@Khaztr these are made for those instances where you left your lights on when you went to the movies and you come out the power licks still works and starter clicks but battery dead.
Not for when battery so dead you can’t even unlock the car via remote and sadly some people who don’t really know much about these are buying these are going to find that out the hard way this winter
@Khaztr…or a riding lawn mower, or an ATV, or a Waverunner, or a Scooter, or Golfcart, or…
Unblame: meh, I asked you to sell a jump starter and you did - for that I am grateful.
Blame: meh, I actually meant something with enough power to jump start a DEAD battery in a 4 cyl car - perhaps I was not specific enough with my request. For this, all responsibility lies with @lichme! Damn GoaT!
p.s. can you sell these magnets?
I bought something similar, called “ChargeIt! Jump Power Pack & Jump Starter” from Meh several years ago. $48.
I use it to eek out the battery on my motorcycle. Sport bikes eat through batteries and for me, parking outside in the elements, I get one winter out of a battery before it starts being very unreliable. With the little portable jump starter, I’ve gone more than 3 years on one battery. I don’t have to worry about whether it will start or not or what the temperature is anymore. If it’s struggling, I MAKE IT START. So ner, crappy 12 volt batteries.
Definitely worth the cost if you are in my scenario. I’ve never once used the flashlight or charged anything else. Just jump-started the hell out of my motorcycle.
@lera I had that same pack. It didn’t have reverse polarity protection, and one day a lady couldn’t start her Oldsmobile at a gas station I was at. I said hey I’ve got this thing, let me help you.
She popped the hood and of course this car has the battery relocated to the trunk and just had a binding post up front. Somehow because I was flustered (I promise I’m generally mechanically inclined and electrically knowledgeable) I must have reversed the cables. There was a big spark and the pack started swelling, fast.
I threw it in the street to get it away from the pumps, sensing an impending lipo explosion. I was kind of excited that I was going to get to see one in person. It smoked for a bit but did not explode.
I’ve replaced the pack since and learned that reverse polarity protection is a valuable feature. RIP Chargeit Jump.
@djslack Holy crap!
Meh
That’s what she said
We don’t use this brand, but these little jump starters are awesome! We use them on diesel engines in equipment in the yard, most of them are three and four cylinders, so it kinda fits the description!
@fuzzmanmatt I know, right? I’m a mechanic; when I first saw one of these I laughed. No way that a little hand held battery with 14 gauge wire is going to start a dead car… I don’t understand how these things can deliver enough amps to crank a car engine without melting the little clamps and thin wires they are attached to, but they work.
I purchased an Energizer brand thinking I may as well get the best, or a 1st tier brand. Well, this will crank my Cub Cadet & John Deere when the batteries are low, BUT they had better crank because if they don’t on two seperate, and adjusted attempts, Forget About It!! It’s time to charge the Energizer jump starter!
This thing appears to have some weird proprietary charging port. With 12,000 mAh, anything less than a USB-C input will make it take many hours to recharge.
Does this come with a charger to recharge it?
If so, is it an ac charger or car?
@topochicho AC
This product is Awesome! I’ve used it twice already - luckily - not on my car - but it’s great. Yes, it will start an 6 cylinder car (I know because it started a Ford Explorer).
@CHURCHGIRL123 Oh! A church girl! I like church girls! What did you use it on?
@therealjrn Ford Explorer that was “found on road dead”. My neighbor was flabergasted when my husband took the small charger and his car started.
@CHURCHGIRL123 Amazing amount of power for such a small unit huh? The first one I saw was when a neighbor helped me jump start my car. I got one awhile back that is a little more beefy than this one, but Imma fan now.
Nah
What the heck is a big ad doing right in the middle of the story write up for this? The ad on mine is sitting right after the farmer arrives. Can’t these stupid things be moved to below it or above it and not in the middle of it? Didn’t used to be that way.
@Kidsandliz What is this ‘ad’ of which you speak?
@compunaut first for something that I think a cookie for reading an article snagged me and then, when I clicked that to go away and refreshed the page, one for something I had looked at on an online store. F’ing cookies. No wait, also f’ing person who coded that page to allow them there!!!
“there” meaning in the middle of the write-up story rather than stashing it elsewhere on the page.
@Kidsandliz You might have some malware. Try a different browser. Also, try incognito https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001378.htm
@caffeine_dude @Kidsandliz Second this. Likely malware.
@caffeine_dude @MegaHenzoid While I have a mac and use Avast I will check for malware. Thanks.
@Kidsandliz Cookies don’t work like that. They are only set or sent at the beginning of the page request in the headers, before you even receive the page data. It was kind of an issue back in the bad old days as a neophyte web developer where you had to make sure you didn’t start outputting any content before headers were sent or your cookies wouldn’t get sent either. Cookies are not malicious by themselves, they’re just for keeping/passing along data to the same site.
@tmilker OK. I don’t know how they work other than visit many sites and then get internet bombed with ads from those sites.I was annoying to have the ad show up in the middle of the home page write up of the product rather than elsewhere on the page. That is the only reason why I am complaining.
@caffeine_dude Thanks. I have never used those but certainly trying that out.
@caffeine_dude @MegaHenzoid So I downloaded malwarebytes mac free version and scanned. It said my computer is clean. Is there some other program I should scan with too or is this one good enough?
@caffeine_dude @Kidsandliz @MegaHenzoid Has your internet search page been hijacked?
@brakeforbeer running malwarebytes free for Mac it came up clean.
@Kidsandliz MalwareBytes can report it clean even if your browser’s search engine preference has been changed. If your default search engine is something weird - and you can’t change it - you still may have been infected. Go to System Preferences. If you see a Profiles icon (and your machine is a personal machine not being managed by a legitimate program like JAMF), then you’ve probably been infected.
@brakeforbeer My default is safari. I opened system preferences for the computer (and for good measure preferences for safari) and nothing looks different. I’d see a profiles icon when the page comes up with all the ions when I open system preferences if there is a problem?
@Kidsandliz In the exploit I’m familiar with, a Profiles icon was added (to the other icons) in System Preferences. Deleting the individual Device Profiles contained inside the Profiles icon then allowed the user to change their browser home page. With the Device Profiles present, the browser home page was grayed out (and couldn’t be changed).
The summer heat can really zap a battery’s charge. And these arrive at the end of summer.
Meh, your timing does not disappoint.
Got this one for $5 more on a flash sale.
Aickar 1200A Peak 20100mAh
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077N1XBMP
IMHO, that was a better deal for a far more powerful unit. 600A vs 250A cranking. 20Ah vs 12Ah storage.
Also, you need to check/charge thsee every 6 months or so.
Those wires are so thin…and not bluetooth. Meh…
“Can start 4, 6 and 8 cylinder engines” isn’t terribly useful. Generally jumper packs list the maximum displacement for gas/diesel that they can reasonably start. An 8 cylinder engine could be 4L or could it could be 9+L… Likewise, I’m sure many smaller jumperpacks that can start small V6’s would struggle with my car.
@mdszy Yep. 2.0L V8 (Ferrari) and 8.5L I4 (Detroit Diesel).
could you leave one of these plugged into a 12V outlet
so that it stays charged all the time?
@frankenstein As long as it has overcharge protection built in, sure.
The good thing about lipo packs,though, is that they do not self discharge quickly. A charged pack will stay charged for months in your glovebox or trunk. Check it before summer and winter and charge when necessary, and you’re good.
@djslack @frankenstein Call me Dumb, or the other guy, Dumber, but what is a lipo? Just asking, aka axing!
@decoratedwarvet In this case, lithium polymer
@frankenstein don’t leave it in a trunk during summer…li-ion batteries aren’t designed for over 140 degrees
I feel like Tammy and the blond from that 2014 Geico commercial who asked why don’t they get in the running car instead of hiding in the dark cornfield or behind the chainsaws should get their own horror movie. The plot would be as soon as the mayham begins, they knock all their idiot friends out, load them in the cars and drive them to safety. Would not be very scary, but would be very satisfying. And maybe one or two friends could give them a hard time, run anyway so it would be suspenseful if Tammy/blond or the boogieman gets to them first.
/image Geico hide behind the chainsaws
I hope that someone with VW Phaeton buys one of these jump starters and successfully uses it just to show the Meh copywriters that they’re full of shit.
Honestly, I’d be more worried about someone trying to start a big V8 Diesel engine with it in the dead of Winter… that little battery isn’t going to stand a chance.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Cyntur JumperPack Jumpstarter
Price Comparison
$99.99 at Amazon
Warranty
2 Year Cyntur
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
I got mine today, and here’s what I know: the packaging is seriously top-notch, and it shipped almost fully charged. It came with a nice padded case to put the unit and AC plug in, but I don’t think the jumper cable piece will fit in there (and maybe that’s by design). The jumper cable connector is keyed, so you can only put it in one way (which I expected, but somebody mentioned polarity questions).
It says it can fully recharge itself from completely dead on the AC plug in 4 hours. I am a bit concerned about where in my car to keep it to avoid overheating it in the summer, though. I think the trunk might be cooler than the cabin on a hot sunny day with the windows closed…I’ll have to check into that.
As for the unit, it appears to be well built. I’m just hoping that it has enough power if we ever need it—all of our cars are 6 cylinder, so I’m guessing we’ll be fine.
@Yelnic There’s really no need to constantly charge it in the car as long as you’re not also using it as a power bank. Trying to charge these in extremes of heat or cold is more detrimental than just letting them sit. Just check and recharge every 3 to 6 months depending on your comfort level. These do not self discharge anywhere near as fast as the old lead acid battery jumper packs.
KuoH
there is No charger for this thing!!!
@mikefendt contact support
My JumperPack sadly was DOA. I just registered with their site and E-mailed info@cyntur.com in the hopes of exchanging it for a working one.
Sad panda. I’m travelling next weekend and was going to use this li’l guy.