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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / General Car Topics / July 2004Poratble jump start systems
I want to buy a portable car jump start system. Are these jump starters reliable and work as advertised? Which of the following would one recommend: Car Start 1000 Vector VEC021 AC/DC/ Jump Start System Vector 12V DC Power Supply / Jump Start System Thanks in advance > I want to buy a portable car jump start system. Are these jump starters > reliable and work as advertised? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Thanks in advance How about web sites for us to look at? Or are we supposed to look for them? Brian > How about web sites for us to look at? Or are we supposed to look for them? > Brian I was wondering whether anyone had experiences with thes porducts. My concern is whether these products are reliable. http://www.autosportcatalog.com/file_center/files/jumpstarters/index.cfm http://www.bestdarnparts.com/vec021.html >> How about web sites for us to look at? Or are we supposed to look for >them? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >http://www.bestdarnparts.com/vec021.html I don't have particular experience with these models but I can talk in general abotu the one I have and the ones I've seen. Most are sealed lead-acid bateries. Which are very reliable. Only one or two moving parts, like switches. So the onlything that I can figure that can fail is the switch or the charging circuit. So do look for a reliable manufacturer. Now for size, imagine you have a totally dead battery. Most of these jumpers will not get you started. 200-300 amps isn't enough for too many starting attempts. I learned this. I have a small one that will help if the battery still has some juice in it, but a totally dead battery was not startable by my 220amp model. But as you go up, you can see a sharp rise in size and price, so you have to figure out what you planning on using it for. I just wanted mine for those cold days that the wifey forgot to turn off the interior light. hth, tom ***************** Check Us Out ***************** http://www.CarFleaMarket.com Bringing back low-cost online car ads to the web! James wrote in alt.autos > I want to buy a portable car jump start system. Are these jump starters > reliable and work as advertised? I have had 3 experiences with them. All on the positive side. Very positive. With two of them, I had a Honda that I left the lights on a couple of times. Very annoying. Both times I got a jump off of one of them, started right up. As good, if not better, than straight from my battery. The other experience really tells how good they are. When the earthquake of 2001 hit in the Seattle are, the outfit I worked for had a large emergency generator that was supposed to start automatically. Unfortnately the last time the service company came out to test they disconnected the battery and never reconnected it. So when we lost power, the generator did not start. The battery was dead, actually 2 12 volt batteries in series to give 24 volts. So the facilities crew got a truck and jumped one battery, and used one of the portable jump start units on the other battery. Got the generator started right up.  SignatureDick #1349 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin Home Page: dickcr.iwarp.com email: dickcr@comcast.net yes they do work my sugg is to ask a local tow yard what they use i have one as my battery has died a few times from my stupidity and i went out asked a local tow company what they used and i went and bought the same one they use it works everytime |
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