You do not like to think about these things but anyone have any good experience.

I have a modern Vector battery charger which has worked very well. The company has had a number of product problems and is now owned by Black & Decker. It covers al types of batteries but it does not handle fully discharged AGM batteries automatically without manual intervention. I would prefer a battery charger than handles AGM batteries more intelligently. The Powermaster battery chargers are supposedly excellent but relatively large, heavy and expensive.

I tried the Vector jump charger and could never get one that would charge properly no matter how many hours it was connected.

I have a JumpNCarry JNC 660 which charges rapidly and works well. I understand the JNC 4000 is practically the same model with nominally less capacity. It is fairly light and compact for a serious jump charger. It can start my Acura cars instantly when fully charged and works as well as the car battery at starting the car when in the normal charge range. It also has enough capacity, approximately 20AH, to charge a battery fairly effectively, to get you going, when you connect to it the car battery and leave it for about 10 minutes. It comes with a cigarette lighter connector cable which works to charge the charger or charge another car battery if you prefer that apporach and are patient. The standard connection cables are 4 Gauge with good clamps and just long enough to connect correctly with the thing sitting on the floor. I now prefer this to my traditional "4 Gauge" professional (heavy duty) long starting cables which weigh almost as much and are just as bulky and still quite expensive. JumpNCarry also offer a good price (one-time option) for repairing the charger when the battery finally needs to be replaced.

 

Resuscitating a 14 year old zombie thread.... I'm looking into buying a jump starter device.

Some rather cursory "research" online has me honing in on a "XP-10 Micro Start" jump starter kit made by Antigravity Batteries, which go for around $180-$200 and earned high marks in recent tests/reviews by CR and Cnet.

https://antigravitybatteries.com/pro...-starts/xp-10/

Has anyone here had any experience (good or bad) with these sorts of jump-starter devices (not necessarily just the model mentioned above)?

Thanks in advance.

 

I have one I got on Amazon for like $60-$70. It has worked really well and let me jump a car (not mine) a number of times. Keep it in the back of the Jeep all the time just in case and bring it on road trips as well. It's pretty small and portable. I don't see a need to pay $200 for a jump box...

 

I think it's known I have a bunch of old crap.

The li-on jump pack I bought from costco (s type) works, but just barely. Usually I get the car started on the 4th try, but only just. I also have to unplug everything and reset the device every time I try, it takes a couple minutes. Also that is for a v6/i6/ It can't do a v8 or diesel despite what it says on the packaging. God knows I've tried.
Project farm did a side by side comparison a bit ago.


unfortunately not the one you linked.
I did also have one of those lead acid ones a long time ago. Worked great. doesn't fit in my glovebox.

 

I got one of those $50 ones from Costco. Used it a few times, worked fine each time.

 

Thanks for the helpful feedback everyone. Much appreciated.

Just a point of clarification: in the very useful and informative Project Farm video provided by Stapler, they tested the "XP-1" model by Antigravity batteries, not the "XP-10" model, which seems to be much more powerful.