Cat 2000 Amp Jumper Pack $99 at Rural King

[whyNick?]

Right now Rural King has Cat brand 2000 amp (peak) jumper packs for $99:

http://www.ruralking.com/automotive...eak-amp-professional-booster-pack-cj3000.html

Their normal price is $129; Amazon lists the same one for $139. Most of the online reviews I found are positive excluding of course the ones written by people who don't seem to know what they're doing (repeat after me, red to red, black to black...).

I've been looking for a cheap jumper pack to replace a small Coleman one I bought a dozen years ago that has developed a memory and this should do the trick. I haven't taken it out of the box yet but once I get it charged up I'll post my impressions.

By the way, if you stop in to get one Rural King is offering 15% off of anything you can fit in a 5 gallon bucket. The jumper pack won't fit but it's a good opportunity to stock up on fluids, small tools, Frostop root beer, etc.

 

[djb2]

2000 amps from a AGM battery that weighs under 20 lbs?

Perhaps 2000 amps for a fraction for a second into a dead short.

At that weight it likely uses a standard 17 Ah or 18 Ah battery. These are often claimed as 600 amps or more "starting power", but really are 360 to 400 CCA.

 

[whyNick?]

Yeah the specs are highly suspect, they use some sort of fuzzy math when they rate stuff like jumper packs, battery chargers, and compressor motors, however it's physically much larger and heavier than my old jumper pack and that one typically got the job done so I figure it'll do what I need it do. Sadly it won't jump a Caterpillar however.

 

[djb2]

... by people who don't seem to know what they're doing (repeat after me, red to red, black to black...).

Unless it's a European car (including BMWs), which sometimes have black as positive and brown (which looks reddish-brown with some flashlights) as ground.

 

[whyNick?]

Or like the car I had in college that had been rewired by a previous owner with lots of blue wire. All blue. It made diagnosing electrical problems fun.

 

[AA/FC]

Buy the industry standard for $30 more and never look back.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JFJLP6/?tag=atomicindus08-20