Wagan EL2467 300 Amp Battery Jumper

My husband is currently deployed, and I let his car sit too long and the battery died (oops). Well, we had been meaning to buy one of these for awhile now, because it's always good to have something like this and not have to rely on strangers. I decided that now was the perfect time to buy one. Especially since my husband's car was in the garage and I didn't feel like pushing it out in order to jump it.The unit arrived in the mail and I plugged it into the wall and charged it for 24 hours. It notes that you shouldn't charge it for more than 48 hours, because it can get overcharged and break. It was neat to note that it has slots for plugging in other devices and even a USB port. I suppose in chase you lose power, you could use this to charge a cell phone or something. Also has a flash light on the front, which helps if you're needing to use this on the side of the road one night.Well, I have never jump started a car before... never even seen someone do it. I read over the instructions, checked my vehicle's owners manual, just to make sure that my car battery was "negative grounded", and then attached the red positive cable to the positive part of the battery, and the black cable to a metal bolt on the car. It did spark when I attached the black cable, which was a little scary for me. The instructions said to leave attached for 3-4 minutes. I left it on for about 15, because my friend said that whenever she's used something like this, they'd leave it attached for maybe 30 minutes. So, after 15 minutes, I went to turn the car on, and voila! It started! I then disconnected the cables, negative first, then positive.So, basically I love this thing. It's really quite small, about the size of a lunch box. It's comforting to know that I can keep this in the trunk of my car, and if I needed a jump, I could take care of it myself. Especially living in Washington state, driving between Spokane and Seattle, my husband and I find ourselves in the middle of nowhere with no cell phone reception quite frequently. What a life saver it is!

stay far far away from this product. save your money, i am a military wife of a deployed soldier and i believed this item would be of great help. guess what it is not, the only thing that did work was this light(the air pump was a joke). save your cash. if you need an expensive flashlight this is your tool. if not go the dollar tree, their items do work. please note the company has a zero refund policy

had this a little while now and today got to use the jumper on a friends truck and it worked perfectly. charged it up when i got it and played with the compressor and it worked fine. had not recharged it in about a month and used the jumper today, it worked good. i am satisfied with it. had several that were bigger than this one and they did not work as good.

Both my and my friend's car batteries died due to the cold this past week. Admittedly, we had both been gone for thanksgiving break and had not driven them in a week or so, so they were totally dead (not turning over at all). I got this off Amazon, and I figured it would do the trick. I charged it the full 48 hours, and put it on my car for 10-15 minutes - and while the lights turned on and the radio did too, the car didn't come close to turning over. I tried multiple times - to no avail. Same thing with my roommate - we ended up having to jump it the old fashioned way.So, I will say, if your car is turning over but not enough to catch, I think this charger will do the trick and giving you the extra juice to start it up. However, if your battery is completely dead (not turning over at all) this charger will not start your car.

Nice, solid construction, but didn't start my honda element's dead battery. Might be good for powering iPods and nofriendos and stuff.

I ordered this product and was at first disappointed when I saw how small it was. But looks can be deceiving. This is an excellent product and works very well. Within the first 2 weeks of receiving it, we had a severe storm and my power went out. Turns out my generator battery was dead. I hooked up this product to the generator and it started with no hesitation. It is feature rich and now I really like the small profile.

I had this for about 3 months, following all the recharge instructions verbatum, and it stopped taking a charge. Dead as a door nail. It was kind of expensive too. Another item on the list of things I should not have bought.

The quality is cheap. It broke down today. The compressor will not inflate my tires.UPDATE: Here is what I found. The unit had lost charge. That's why the compressor would not inflate. But it the lack of diligence that stopped me from finding out was not my fault. This is what the product FAQ might be leaving out. The LED light kept showing green indicating It was charged. It appears this only applies to the jump-boosting function: the compressor it requires more power. So when I put it to charge it took a full 8hrs to charge! Then it inflated my tires. This is all my hypothesis. I will keep you posted.