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Default Lithium jump-start packs (slightly OT)

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Rod Speed wrote:
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Anyone got any experience with them, or can recommend one?
Only for a 1.3 petrol engine plus general use as a mobile supply.


I did see the video someone posted, in here from memory.


Amazing what it would start car engine wise given how small it was.


Not that much bigger than a fat pack of cigarettes from memory.


My guess is it will only work where the car battery is only slightly
too low to start the car. Willing to bet it wouldn't work with no car
battery in place, or totally flat. So rather like most jump start
packs.


Does it have a large capacitor charged up by the batteries so that there
is an initial "thump" of charge to get the engine going?


Would need to be a pretty large capacitor. ;-)

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