Anyone own a Rolson's 12V Jump Start with Air Compressor unit?

Sep 01, 2006 23 Replies

Do these things use Lead Acid Batteries? The ones I've seen, at least the newer ones, tend to be small and claim capacities which suggest an Li based battery. Recovering them is, at best, 'interesting'. You can swap out cells but trying to recover cells (or batteries) by 'forcing' them to accept a charge can result in dramatic results.

Even recovering sulphated LA batteries is hit and miss. I've tried in the past but never managed more than a fraction of the original capacity and, even then, the results have been short lived. Certainly, modern LA batteries seem all but impossible to recover, the limited success I've had was with older ones some years back. I was given some 'magic' pills years ago- a bit like Batt Aids on steriods- they worked but I've never seem them since.

Cheap ones use standard batteries. Bat aid pills are still in shops including Halfords, I used to sell them in a motorcycle shop, but not recommend them, they were helpful on little bikes with no real power requirements, but pretty useless on anything with electric start.

For my sealey jump pack I cut the casing around and fitted a fiesta battery in it, starts anything really easily. The original battery was IIRC 14ah and cost about the same as a fiesta battery.

I have one with the following on back: ADAPTOR model HB-DC 12v 500 input 230v/240v. 50hz output 12v DC 500mA

CE. emc BS

What are you looking for? A new PS?

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