HALO Bolt 58830 mWh Portable Phone Laptop Charger Car Jump Starter with AC Outlet and Car Charger, Usb

Starts any car or truck plus more. Works everytime

Awesome very easy to use jump box with USB ports!! I don’t like jumping cars but this little pack includes everything including easy instructions & takes the fear out of feeling like your going to hurt yourself!! I work on my owns car but batteries freak me out & anyone could use even teens that don’t know anything about cars. It sat in our cold car all winter & had a full charge jumped a pretty dead car battery with plenty of juice to keep going! I compared many brands including ones made by Peak or other car related brands & this by far had the most power! They are a little more pricey then some of the cheap ones you can find but the quality is great & we had a few of these & they were dead dead within a year especially if you left them in the cold/hot cars but it doesn’t do you any good at home so... plus it’s so small & compact our other ones were the size of an antifreeze bottle! You can even buy ones that have a built in flashlight, air compressor, & regular outlets so they make all dif styles by this brand & they arnt chintzy as my Dad says! Definitely worth it for the quality & if it doesn’t get ruined with the temp in your area! It can go from hot to cold i Wisconsin in a minute!!

I love this Halo! It does take a little while to charge fully, but it doesarrive at 50% so it didn't take the full 9 hours it said that it could. Super easy to use, great instruction book, awesome that it comes with accessories. My car battery was completely dead from over the winter time, and not being driven. When the charger was full, it took only 1 jumpstart and my car starts! This is a life saver, and I feel so much better knowing I have it. A MUST ORDER!!

This think is great it's bald my dad out a few times

This is my fourth buy of the product. I originally purchased one of the previous generation (no 2 prong plug in) and gifted to my parents. They live in a remote area so the day it arrived they used it to power my mothers power scooter back down the drive to the house. It had stalled when she went for the mail (1/4 mile dirt drive so it was a HUGE help!) and as if planned this was delivered same time!I bought additional ones for my sister, niece and myself. Updated my parents and mine with the plug in for lights and we have all had to use the Halo for jump starting cold batteries last winter. Saved us calling and waiting on tow trucks. Parents have used it when the power went out for lights, dad's coffee maker, and even to rescue my mother from her lift arm chair!Super easy to use and instructions are pictured too, right on the carry case! Held charge for over 6 months. This to me is as essential for home and auto (I carry mine with me in my tote so always with me) as a fire extinguisher or first aid kit.Oh, great gift for anyone traveling with kids or forced to wait for hours in hospitals! Let them game while waiting for treatments instead of getting anxious over yet another poke session. Can plug in and play tablet, laptops, and phones for over 6 hours ime.

I got one of these to replace my Halo D28 13600mAh jumpstarter which did not have an AC inverter.* Pretty much all of these portable chargers are made by Bolt.* Different ones will just have different capacity LiPO cells inside.* The benefit of the larger capacity cells is the higher amps they can put out.By the common 3.7V mAh ratings people use, this would be 15900.* In jump-start mode, this uses all three cells in series as a 5300mAh 12.6V battery (at full charge).* When charging, each cell is charged individually by the battery management system* It's unknown if the USB and inverter supplies pull from the whole pack, or balanced from each cell._________GENERAL:* Some of the cables with my other kit were better, and I swapped those, specifically the universal USB cable.* The case for my other one was much better than the thin, drawstring bag this one came with.* The jump-start function works as expected. I've used it twice on two different v6 engines. For jumpstart, you connect the cables to the battery. Then plug the dongle into the power brick. Then, hit the on/start button next to the jumper section (left-most button). You only have to press it once, and it will go from blinking green to solid green once it realizes it's on a car. It will trickle charge while you walk to the driver seat. Start the car, and it will be a little weaker than a full car batter, but it will turn over quickly. As soon as the car starts, the brick turns itself off, or if you take more than 30 seconds or so. Once running, just unplug the brick, remove the cables, and you're good to go.The cables are not super strong. The hinges are plastic, and if you accidentally twist a little while clamping on, they will pop apart. The other kit's cables have metal hinges, and may be able to be used. However, they are a tight fit, and have some additional electronics that I'm not sure are compatible.* The USB ports work as expected. There is a separate ON button for the USB ports in the middle of the brick.* The AC port has a separate ON button just for it on the right side. The AC port gave me 1.75 hours for 2 strings of Christmas lights (incandescent). It's a little less than I was expecting, but maybe if I'd gone LED.* There is a bright lantern on the left side, with its own (4th) power-on switch. It looks like a white window about 2cm by 4.5cm. (0.8" by 1.75"). It does not have a reflector nor a lens. It's not a flash-light so much as a lantern. It emits a bright, but diffused white light (about 3000K, so not incandescent yellow, but not LED blue). Great for finding things in the dark.* There is no 12V output port on this, which is disappointing. The other unit has that, and can connect to a cigarette lighter port for trickle charge, or some laptops, or etc.* You cannot use this as an electronics UPS, because it eventually shuts off, and does not automatically turn back on.The charge cable and port is much lower amperage than this will put out through its other ports.* This has a very low discharge rate on the shelf. This and my other, I left fully charged, on the shelf, in climate controlled rooms only, for 13 months. The D28 (other one) was dead. It would not even report that it was dead. I'm 1 hour into recharging it, and it's working on the second of 4 LEDs. This one, the Halo, showed full charge. I jumpstarted an SUV, and and put 10% into the D28 brick, but the Halo still showed full. When I went to recharge this Halo, it only blinked the last LED, and took about 30 minutes to fully charge.That's the biggest win here. Having to remember to recharge a brick all the time is hard. When you need to jump the car, you need this to be ready. This seems to not be a soft-on/soft-off button, rather, when you hit the on button, it causes it to switch some sort of circuit on which simply pulls no power. It's not looking for a wake-up signal, it's more like a hard-on switch.I believe the instructions say it has up to 25 jumpstarts in it, though the product description says 96-217. I guess it depends on the car, and how long you try to start. After 14 months sitting on the shelf, 10 mins charging another power bank, and one jump-start of a 3.5L V6 engine, it took 5 watt-hours of power to bring it back to full, or about 10%.* Physically, the size is 10x3x18 cm, or 4x1.2x7 inches. It weighs 765 grams or 1.686 pounds, plus accessories. It has little rubber feet inside of molded stand-offs so it does not scratch paint or tables, does not slide around, and keeps a little airflow underneath to keep it from getting hot during use._____________ELECTRONICS:The battery in this one is 58.83 watt-hours capacity.* The construction is three 3.7V (4.2 to 3.2) LiPO cells connected in series.* Fully charged, this sits at 12.6V, and discharged, it is 9.6V.* Each of the three cells is 5.3 watt hours, a common size online.* Each is technically 16 thin cells in parallel for low-resistance, high-current.* The internal cable is aluminum with silicone insulaion.* When activated, the battery is directly connected to the power port.* Reverse current (charging or short circuit) disables the port.* High temperature (short circuit) also disables the port.* There is also a timer which shuts off the port after a few minutes.The older packs with external protectors were directly connected to the battery.* The battery itself can put out 500A for a fraction of a second if shorted.* Sustained max load is 160A, and voltage sags to 10vDC.* When starting, the actual draw cycles through 60-250A as compression cycles between the cylinders.* A true short of the battery would will destroy the cell closest to the negative terminal.This newer pack has internal electronics for safety.* This pack, you have to hit the start button to connect the battery to the external connector.* If reverse current comes in (alternator is running), then this will disconnect the internal battery.* If the current draw is too high for too long (shorted), this shuts off (thermal protection).This pack is rated for 25 start attempts.* The recommended usage is 5 seconds start attempt, and 30 seconds rest.* That would vary based on the engine size, starter condition, and cranking duration.* This average equates to 10-15 minutes including cooldown cycles.* The rest period allows the electronics to cool, and the battery temperature to equalize any hot-spots.* Usable power is more with lower drain, such as charging a cellphone.Generally, you can trickle charge your car's battery with this if you want.* My vehicle uses a 12V battery with a 120min reserve capacity.* Reserve amps is 25 (eg, headlights, dome lights, electronics).* That's 600 watt hours. Cheap batteries are half that.* As such, you could not fully charge a car battery from this* Sometimes, giving the lead acid battery a little charge can help reduce the starting load.* If the in-car battery were failed or shorted inside, it might be easier to disconnect the battery and start with only the pack.* If the alternator is failed, then the charger may not turn off, and the car might sputter and die when you disconnect the jumper.In addition to the battery are various power converters inside:* A buck converter to 5VDC at 2.4A for the USB ports.* A bost / inverter that converts to 115VAC at 1.77 Amps.* A regulator for charging input of 14VDC (wall wart or car DC port).

I love the Halo Bolt.It’s so easy to use and does the job it claims to do. It’s a good thing to have when camping and make it easy to charge pretty much anything with a cord.

We used this on some lady’s car that were stranded with dead battery they were so grateful