Thread: Mini Jump Starter

After seeing the mini jump starter on episode 115 of Your 4x4 on Youtube, I decided to investigate them further, it seems these have been around for a while now, and the only thing that is new is there getting more powerful and they are now available with 600CCA with an amp rating of 50,000mAh, I don't really know what that means exactly, but I'm assuming it has to do with how many times it can be used over a period of time, or how many cycle I think the term is.

Now if you own a European Diesel engined vehicle(which includes Jeeps) 600 CCA is not all that big, as most Euro vehicle batteries are an AGM style battery and 900CCA minimum(eg) our D2 was 980CCA with 110Ah and our D4 is 950CCA with 90Ah storage, this is where the problem could be, will 600cca be enough to give charge to kick over a vehicle with a 900cca battery.

I think my issue really is not the CCA but the size of the device, we have a Projecta jump starter, and it is big, but only has 400CCA, I have used it many times at it does work very well, I have only used it once on our cars though and it did work to kick over our D2, am I worrying too much about the size.

Anyway, here are a few I've been looking at;

This one seems to be sold by different companies(Kingcrome/Battery World/batteries Direct) under different part numbers, but looks like it's the same model device, all around the same price, with Kingcrome being the cheapest, it is only a single purpose device.

Kincrome KP1402 Kick Start Jump Starter 600CCA Rechargeable LI ION Pack | eBay

I looked as closely as possible at the one in the YOUR 4X4 video, I'm assuming it was a promotional one for testing (had no name on it)and the closest I could get to it was this one, it also claims to be specific to diesel engines, $299 for the top one and the price is $174 for the second and a multi purpose device.
Mini Jump Starter PowerVOLT MJS004

Also this one, which claims to be able to start an engine up to a 4.5ltr turbo diesel V8, it's also the dearest at $240.
Super Mini Booster Jump Starter Pack | eBay

Baz.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Not quite that small Baz...
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Works great..

I have one of these as well. Very happy with it although only ever used it on toyotas and commodores