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Originally Posted by Henn28
I’ve only had it for 3 days. I’d been foolishly putting off buying one for too long, and it bit me last week with a dead battery in a parking garage. It could be crap, but I will say that the model just below it in their lineup was a popular mechanics best pick. I went up to the next model because it has an inverter with a cigarette lighter plug, either standalone in the car, or the battery pack has a plug and can then put out 110.
It’s heavy and just big enough to make the built in flashlight sort of a silly afterthought. The only way to charge it, out of the box, is via USB C. I thought his was odd, but it works fine. Came with a 76% charge so I plugged it into my laptop dock (about 15 watts) and it was at 100% this am and had automatically turned off. They do offer a fast charging system.
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Update: A new 900 CCA battery, coupled with the reman-starter I put in last winter and the X5 explodes to life. The GooLoo 4000 jump pack adds piece of mind, and I've had to use it already because my wifes 2015 Grand Cherokee started acting up last week. Brake messages, barely starting, lots of electrical gremlins. The maint menu showed less than 8V (!) so off to Autozone for a new battery. I'm surprised it would start at all at less than 8v (the X5 could barely manage a relay "click" at 10 v), but it would, after several tries and misses. The GooLoo worked so well on her jeep though that I bought the next model down to keep in that car.
This morning I put the multi meter on the X5 and did a phantom current draw test. This after I blew my old meter up by not being able to follow directions. I puled the negative cable, bridged it to the battery with the meter and saw about 4 to 4.5 amp draw. Then I rested the meter where I could read it though the tailgate glass, closed the car up and locked it. The draw immediately dropped down to 1.5ish amps, then after what felt like 16 minutes it went down to .04 - .05 amps. Good news and I guess the (at least) 5 year old battery in the car just failed a few weeks ago and nothing I have done to the car created an excessive draw.
I'm still considering buying a solar, or plug in minder, or both depending on where and when I leave the car for longer periods when out of town. I like the thread somewhere here about the magnetic plug guys have added. Very slick.