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Battery jump starter pack - Doc

Robert Dyas is currently selling the RAC Battery jump starter pack (400A)

This seems like a good deal for £29.99 Does anyone have experience of this unit, or similar?

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Battery jump starter pack - gordonbennet

I'd only consider this if it would only be used to start small petrol engines...it doesn't state whether that 400amps is Cold Cranking, so i suspect it isn't.

For reference my Clarke JumpStart 4000 gives 700amps cold cranking power, but obviously at a much higher price...but there's nothing worse than a jump pack which doesn't have enough kick.

Battery jump starter pack - SteveLee

My starter pack is a Ring 800CCA model - started a neighbour's V10 Touareg TDI from flat - no probs. You'd be better off wih quality jump leads over a cheap jump starter pack.

Battery jump starter pack - focussed

The RAC jump starter pack has an 8 AH battery in it - don't waste your money-that's the sort of size battery that a small motorcycle or scooter would have.

Battery jump starter pack - oldroverboy.

I bought one of these a few years back, not enough to start the then diesel epica when the battery failed. waste of money, lesson learned!

Battery jump starter pack - martint123

I got one similar from Maplin a few years ago. Battery was smaller than my motorbike battery - something like 8Ah. Might be ok for starting a lwan mower, But it didn't last a month in my garage - battery destroyed first time it was used in anger trying to get next doors car started.

Battery jump starter pack - Doc

The RAC jump starter pack has an 8 AH battery in it - don't waste your money-that's the sort of size battery that a small motorcycle or scooter would have.

Is there a correlation between Ah and CCA (cold cranking amps)?

A jump starter pack needs CCA but not reserve capacity.

The packs don't seem to quote CCA.

So could a battery have a high CCA but a low Ah rating?

Battery jump starter pack - RT

There is a correlation between Ah and CCA but only taking internal battery construction into account as well - it's to do with the plate area (bigger area > more CCA) and electrolyte volume (more volume > more Ah).

Conventional car batteries have relatively big plate areas and relatively low electrolyte volume - that's compared to, say, traction batteries - but in practice car/motorbike batteries are used for many thing with different labels stuck on.

Many leisure batteries, for which Ah is important but not CCA, are just car batteries with handles and a new label - I'd expect jump starter packs to be just motorbike batteries - the demand for specialist batteries of 8 Ah but 600+ CCA is very low so I doubt they're built in that configuration.

Battery jump starter pack - elekie&a/c doctor
My starter pack uses an Agm battery rated at 22ah and 324 cca .Pushes out 1700 peak starting amps,for up to 5 secs.hth