Emergency Jump Starter: Peak PKC0AZ 450 Amp Jump Starter

Product Details

Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 14.6 x 13.5 inches ; 15.4 pounds
Shipping Weight: 15.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
ASIN: B002YLRN30
Item model number: PKC0AZ

By : Peak
List Price : ~~$119.99~~
Price : $63.32
You Save : $56.67 (47%)

Product Description

Peak Jump Starter is a 450 Amp jump starter with 900 Peak amps of power. This unit has the Peak exclusive Low Charge Alert (LCA) technology that warns the consumer when the jump start battery needs recharging. LCA means you will always be ready to jump start your car when you need it most. No need to have another driver involved with the Peak Portable Power System 300. This product is also a powerful portable source of DC power anywhere with its DC power outlet. Easy and safe to use than jumper cables. It comes with DC and AC recharging adaptors. The 5 LED battery indicators can instantly tell you the battery power level. The reverse polarity LED and alarm keeps you from hooking up the cables incorrectly.

Peak PKC0AZ 450 Amp Jump Starter

Product Features

Exclusive Low Charge Alert (LCA) Alarm signals owner when jumper needs charging
High impact resistant housing with rubberized sure-grip bottom and handle
Reverse polarity LED and alarm
5 LED battery power indicator
This item is not for sale in Catalina Island

Customer Reviews

(originally written for a solar power forum, but applies here too)
OK, I wussed out, and bought a commercial product! We have a small sleeping hut built on the ranch now, but no power in it yet. It's going to take a while to mount a panel, batteries, charge controller, wire up lights and such, and we arrive at nighttime, and no where to plug the CPAP in ! So I spent a couple days pricing out different ways to accomplish this, and settled on a portable jump start pack. Found a model with good reviews (Peak PKC0AZ 450), and no air compressor (that often fails after 50 total minutes of use). Located one in stock at local autoparts store, and bought it, taking a chance it's been parked in a warehouse for a year, and then in the back room for 2 more years, resulting in a flat, sulfated battery. (fully half of the complaints at Amazon)
Other choice was to get a AGM battery, rig up a case, cigar jack outlet, charger and hope it still fits into the car.
Upon opening it up, and throwing a voltmeter on it, I was pleased to find it reading 12.85V on a warm afternoon. It's built-in indicator showed it was 4/5 charged - also good. I plugged it's wall wart (transformer, not switcher, 12V, .5A) in, and let it top it off for a couple hours, it came to quiescence at 13.37v, and I unplugged it. After an hour, it read 13.13V. Awesome! And the Respironics power cord (for the CPAP) appears to fit snugly into the Lighter jack.
Using my kill-a-watt before I was shopping, I'd discovered that the CPAP consumed about 75 watt hours in a 6 hour run, and that for 2 nights, I'd consume about 12.5 ah of battery. The "450A packs" claim to have an 18AH AGM battery in them, but I figured, I may as well have a portable unit, than a hulk that will last me a month. And if I only ran it one night (6.25 AH consumed) and then recharged, it'd live a long lifetime. Well, the power brick for the CPAP is a pig. After running all night (6 hours) , the voltage in the AM, read 12.66v Whoo hooo! Internal battery indicator LEDs still showed 4/5 charge, way less drain than the power brick used (all my testing is done with humidifier OFF) so even though the brick read about 3 watts idle, it was using more with a light load.
So, this will recharge at my shop, and I think I'll get a plug in lamp timer, and set that for a 1 hour charge daily, to keep it topped off between visits. And since the shop is on solar power, now my CPAP is too!
Added benefit, the power pack has a LED lamp built in, and a USB power port, so I don't even need a cigar plug Y cord to charge my phone and PDA.
So, I've owned this less than 2 days, but I think it will do the job I need it to, and it's not DOA out of the box. It can also charge via a running car too, but I've not tried that yet, I think I can also feed it from a 3 stage charge controller set for AGM. And it can jump start the tractor too, if I need it.
And it was a lot less than the $$ soft side 14ah CPAP battery pack. I hope the AMA does not come after me!

I bought this to use as an emergency jump starter for our cars. Works great, have only charged once and so far no problems. I like the extra amps as opposed to the smaller ones.