Thread: Kings 1000A lithium Jumpstarter, Just get one... worth it.

If it starts Arkles, you reckon it would start my 4.0 Perky?

I thought the 1000A was a typo but no its correct, good value for $80.

Better value last night on special at $75 including a torch.

These are highly recommended, I think I have the older one but I paid $90 and it's been going strong as a portable charger and jumpstarter for years now. Saved me and others many times, and way more convenient than jumper leads

Originally Posted by Tins

If it starts Arkles, you reckon it would start my 4.0 Perky?

if it was fully charged and the battery had any life in it my guess is yes, I had to reset a couple of times because a pair of n120's can suck a lot of amps when they're flat, But from a not full state it got it done. I'm kinda curious to see how it goes from fully charged, my money says its got 2 short but aggressive cranks in it if I had the batteries off and was just straight onto the starter.

I know a vehicle thats getting jump posts in the near future.

Hi,
A bloke in an older Patrol was under the bonnet one morning, trying to get the engine to start on a flat battery. I offered a jump start if he was happy to wait till we had packed up and ready to move and save him trying to jury rig a jump from a dubious aux battery.
He had one of those nifty little starters but had been using it for other things and it was down to 3 of 5 charge indicator leds and wouldn't crank the diesel motor.
I still had 13.5 V in our Li house battery, so I plugged it into a cigarette socket while we finished breakfast and packed up.
It was at 4 leds when we were ready to move, so clipped it to his battery and tried the starter.
Bingo!
It was quite impressive and started easily.
There are some other types that are capacitor powered and don't store power long term, but will self charge from a battery with more than 8 Volts.
It beeps when ready and will hold that charge for some tens of seconds till discharged by starting.
I've only seen them on YouTube, and have been procrastinating which type to get.
Cheers

I've had one of those capacitor type jump starters for about 4 or 5 years now and it works well, I've jumped large tractors, small bulldozers and the Oka's 5.9 litre diesel plus a wide variety of smaller engines from mowers to 4wd utes.
It has a little inbuilt battery which will charge it up and can also charge itself from any battery with at least 9 volts available.
Mine is a Baintech Ultra Capacitor jump starter.

Originally Posted by oka374

Mine is a Baintech Ultra Capacitor jump starter.

I'd never seen those, but I do have a much larger ultra-capacitor bank I use for a spot welder that I get a genuine 3.5kA from (I melted a 1000A shunt testing it), so I can imagine something like that starting a bus if they are real ultra-capacitors. The biggest limiter I see in devices like that is the connector and cables. I don't think the people that write the specs quite understand what 1000A over a couple of seconds will actually do to a wire that small. I think they rely on that 1000A being the instantaneous "get it moving" then it drops to a max of half that for the actual "rotate up to speed".

Having said that, my pack (the genuine 3.5kA unit) is slightly larger than a 6 pack of VB, so quite a bit bigger than those units.

I'd pick an ultra-cap unit over a lithium polymer any day though.