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Location: Coquille, OR		 Black & Decker Simple Start 12-Volt Battery Booster

Just plug it into your car's cigarette lighter.

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Product Features

  • Charges and starts your vehicle within minutes through the car's 12V DC accessory outlet
  • Built-in 12 volt DC charging port for charging cell phones
  • Two LED area lights built-in for emergency use
  • Compactly designed for storage; fits in most glove compartments
  • Rechargeable from any 12 volt DC vehicle outlet or 120 volt AC household charger
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I found this on Gizmodo, a UK site and tracked it down to Amazon here in the US.

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No jump leads, no drenching, no frostbite and no relying on the good nature of fellow drivers to stop and help, especially since one of them will probably be an axe murderer.
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Good deal, hope the circuit on the cig lighter can take the power.
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Moonlight Patrol wrote:
Good deal, hope the circuit on the cig lighter can take the power.
Cigarette lighters, or the now more politically correct 12V convenience outlets are typically fused at 20 Amps, so I suspect they might.
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I quit smoking 15 years ago, just after I got married (funny how that happened..) I hadn't notice but we have a '03 pickup and a '05 toyotoa van. Neither one has a ash try.

So it's not really jumping the car but adding more amps back to the batt...
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