#Costco battery jump pack full#
#Costco battery jump pack portable#
#Costco battery jump pack series#

The HALO will charge and peak a good but discharged battery. If the vehicle battery is so bad it has to be charged every night to start the vehicle the next day forget it. With regards to jump starting some things I learned:ġ) it will not jump start a vehicle with a bad battery. I have used it to jump start multiple cars, a motorcycle, garden tractor and my 1969 Cherokee 140. It is about as big as a bible and has besides a jumper cable port 2 USB ports, light and 110v inverter. Would the plane's voltage regulator deal with some of the above? Or does it matter if the master and avionics switch is off? I sure wouldn't want to fry anything expensive. I know that when I jump the plane, I keep the master and avionics switch off. Same goes for your 12V gadgets: you could use it, hoping they can withstand the 16V actual, but you shouldn’t. Applying voltage this high to a car’s 12V charging / lighting circuit is probably ok, meaning that it should be pretty tolerant to voltage swings to begin with, but does have a potential to fry some stuff, say interior light bulbs.

When the cells are fully charged, it gives 4 x 4.2V = 16.6V, when fully discharged it becomes 4 x 3.15V = 12.6V (actual voltage will drop obviously under load, especially past half charge).

#Costco battery jump pack series#

This basically means that internally they simply routed 4 lithium cells in series to both so-called '12V' outputs, without any regulation circuitry in between. The output is not regulated at all: under load (in my test case, 1A), it steadily drops from 16V to just under 12V, when fully discharged.

#Costco battery jump pack full#

This is good enough to recharge your phone 2-3 times, and juice up a laptop with compatible input for an extra 2-4 hours.ģ) Nice features: two USB smart ports with up to 12V output, USB-C charging and output, red-on-black functional display,ġ) The supposed 12V output is actually 16.8V at full charge - both at the clamps and at the barrel jack (see the photo). With this 2A draw, it runs for over 5 hours on full charge. I was just about to buy it until I read this review:Ģ) 5V output line is fairly well regulated, stays around 4.8V at the 2A load.

Man that thing looks like a beast - and a good price. Don’t know if it would make a difference. Note: the one I listed above says it is an 8000 mAh unit, but I could have sworn the one I bought (same brand, same look), was only 4000 mAh but I don’t have the packaging anymore. It did put a charge to the battery, but didn’t have enough “oomph” to get the blades over the top of the compression stroke on my IO-470 (which, with high-compression cylinders seems to be a pretty tough-torquing engine).ĭoes anyone have a good experience with these packs who might be able to point me in the right direction for one that would have enough “juice” for my engine? I have an acquaintance who was able to jump his diesel tractor engine with one so I think it should be possible. I saw this one for sale at Costco the other day, which I think is on the lighter-duty end of the spectrum.Ĭoincidentally, my mechanic ran the battery down doing a bunch of avionics configuration and testing recently, so I had the perfect opportunity to try it out. I fly into a lot of remote areas and one of bigger (and more likely) mechanical issues that I worry about is a simple dead battery.

#Costco battery jump pack portable#

I have slowly been building my emergency tool kit for the plane and have been wanting to add a portable jump pack.