John: I’ve been carrying one of these around for, I don’t know, five or six years.
Adam: Ah, a switchblade. You don’t carry around a switchblade?
John: I cut you.
I noticed that when I drove the big fire engine you brought up earlier at the Brunetti ranch, it was—you know, he had to have one, bring one of these out to start the thing. This is a solid state battery jump starter.
You can buy these. Look up—I’d say—a solid state jump starter on Amazon. Unfortunately, nowadays, there are so many of these things, including the one I have, they don’t even list it anymore. But these things are small. You want to get something that’s got 2,500 to 4,000 amps, if you can get it. 4,000 amps is good.
They’re very simple. You hook it to the battery and usually they have a boost mode. Usually you start it right away—you hook it up and then start the car. If you have a dead battery, it’s handy. You can start the car. And if it won’t start the car, you can push the boost button and you get another, you know, 20,000 or 22,000 amps. It’s a lot of amps. It boosts.
And these things are also interesting because they’ll probably start the car five to seven times before they need recharging. And they also have outputs—like if you want to plug your phone into it. You’ll have enough juice to charge your phone for the next five years.
So they’re very handy. But there’s a bunch of them now. I’d say they’re all pretty much made by two or three companies in China. It’s another Chinese product. You probably should get it while you can.
Adam: Are there semiconductors in there? Because that could be exempt.
John: Oh, it has to have—or otherwise you can’t get that kind of power out. It should be exempt, now that you mention it, based on what Letnik said.
Whatever the case is, check these out. There’s a lot of them—you want a couple of things to look for. You want to have a lot of amps for the price, because there’s low amps that cost too much. And there’s high amps that are cheap. And then you want to make sure it has a booster mode so it gives the full juice—pretty much drains the thing. And it should have some USB outputs for charging miscellaneous products.
Fabulous thing. Everyone should have one of these batteries. Jay’s got one. I’ve got one. Everybody—you know—people should have these. Everybody needs one. You need one.