I bought two of these units about one year ago. One is still functioning. The other failed after 3 months. .500 is a good batting average if you are a baseball player but not so for consumer products. I will not buy another nor recommend the product.
My daughter has one of these because her husband felt it was a good thing for her to have, when her battery died and she was stuck 2 hours waiting for a tow truck. She has used it numerous times for things like pumping up a trailer tire, jump starting their riding lawnmower with it, charging up her cell phone in a power outage, and tonight we just used it again during a five hour power outage as our main source of light. It has a 12 volt cigarette lighter style socket, a USB and wall outlet power source. We can't find anything bad to say about this little unit and I am going to buy one of these for myself when I return home. We Love this unit!!!!
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This thing cranked a car with a dead battery once for me. After that it just did not have enough power for the job. I used it to pump up a few tires (that were soft, not flat) and now it barely does that.
Now after using it 5 or 6 times, I have it on the charger and it won't go past 11.3 volts.
This unit was a replacement for another Stanley jump box that also failed after a month. Don't waste your money on this it will let you down.
BTW, the jump box I owned previously jumped dozens of cars and lasted for several years! It was a generic unit I bought on sale for $20! I am wishing I had not left it in the back of some car I worked on.
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Overall I like it, documentation is sparse, LCD readout is very nice, my main complaint it it does not come with a 12V adaptor so it can be charged form a car 12V outlet.
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This thing didn't hold a charge, the digital readout didn't work and it overheated so fast the 120AC outlet was useless.
DO NOT BUY! YOU CAN NOT RETURN IF IT IS A PIECE OF CRAP!
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I rated a "1" because there wasn't a "0" option. I have two remotes that both worked perfectly fine but the keys were worn and one was broken where you attach it to your key chain. It seemed these "cases" were the perfect solution. Until ...I received them. When I put the remote's internal part into the "new case", nothing happened when I pressed the buttons!! I wrote to request a return of the items. Not only did I get a flat out refusal, I also had the displeasure of receiving an email from the store manager that I felt was rather condescending. I felt the wording addressed me as though I were an imbecile. So, although I didn't like the product, the low opinion is more about the seller. I won't ever order anything from them again. For those of you that do, I wish you better luck.
