Portable battery jump starter

Brent-

Yes, very useful, I've had two for several years. Keep one in the Durango, and another under the helm floorboard on the C-Dory, plugged into the shore power circuit so it gets charged whenever we're hooked up.

Saved my own and a few other people's days with them.

Our marina keeps a couple charged and on the ready at the office just for such battery problems, etc.

The Boy Scouts should have a "Be Prepared" Merit Badge program in their use and maintenance!

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
We use one on our boat, and have kept them on the past several boats, as well. The one we currently use also has an inverter and an air compressor... good for filling trailer tires when necessary and charging a cell phone or computer when at anchor. We decided the snow-blower attachment wasn't necessary, but these are very useful. :wink: :thup
 
They are great to have not only for saving the day on dead batteries but providing 12 v for other little needs. A neighbor has cancer and is now unable to use his little pedal powered boat in our cove. I bought a small used trolling motor, mounted it on his pedal boat and now he can get about 45 minutes cruising our cove with my jump starter. Neat to have around.
Ron
 
Ron, It sounds like the "neatest thing to have around" is a neighbor like you! Good on you for keeping a fellow mariner on the water.
 
We have a couple of these type of devices--with the air compressor etc in the trucks/cars etc. For jump starting, I perfer a garden tractor or PWC battery, The U1 battery has 31 amp hours and a CCA of 215, MCA of 330, which is considerably more than the all in one units. The disadvantage of the U1 type of battery is that you have to have jumper cables and a charger.
 
We also carry a portable jump starter on SleepyC. Have used it to power the spot light, and the movie machine, charge phones and GPS batteries, but not yet for it's actual (jump start) purpose. Gets charged about 2 times a season, whether it needs it or not.

Harvey
SleepyC
 
designbug":1vqidiuj said:
Would the 18Ah battery be enough to jump start a Honda 150 if necessary?

Thanks, Dick
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I dont know

I am moving next to Ron (on edit) and in the mean time buying one for the car and boat. Looks like a deal for $60
 
I have a black and decker unit that I carry on the 16 when I go offshore. A full day of fishing using all the electronics runs the single group 24 down quite a bit. I also use it to power a dvd player and some other gadgets that I like to have.
 
The reason that we use the U1 battery rather than a battery pack: The battery pack is made to boost start a low battery, not replace a dead one. If you still have voltage--lets say 11 volts, the boost pack will work--and I have used one for that. But if the battery is completely dead, the 16 amp hr is not enough. I have started 150 hp engines, with the U! alone. Not a lot of reserve, but it will start the engines.
 
The U1s alone are about 2x the price of those packaged jobs. I am buying U1s for starting motors for my 22 and am getting prices of $85-$120 for AGMs.

BTW anyone near Anacortes with a Port Supply account who would be willing to buy 3 batteries for me?

Warren
 
Manual states it is 18Ah sealed gel battery and can provide up to 450 A cranking power.
How many amps does a Honda 150 need to start?
 
Brent - The Honda 150 owner's manual says minimum battery requirements are 80 Ampere-hours and Cold Cranking Amps rating of 622.

For comparison, it looks like the U1 has 32 AH with CCA320.
 
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