iJoy 10,000 mAh Jump Starter Kit
- It’ll charge your phone and jump your car.
- It’s like a resourceful friend without all the nagging questions about your life choices.
- Also has a built-in light.
- Comes with a decent plastic padded case to hold the battery and various cables.
- 10,000 mAh capacity.
- They say “the initial amperage is 200, and the cranking amps are 300” but we totally agree with this guide that starts out with “Buying a jump starter can be confusing.”
- Model: IJ-JMP-STRTR-KT, which, if you try to pronounce it, sounds exactly like it would if you said “Jump Starter Kit” with a bad nose cold.
Favor Fear
I remember being a kid, riding in my parents’ car at night, and dropping something. Maybe a toy or a quarter. It doesn’t matter what. What matters is I reached up and turned on the dome light to find the object in question. And it was then that my dad freaked the fuck out. You would’ve thought I’d tossed hot acid in his eyes. “Turn that off! I can’t see anything!” he claimed. He might’ve even swerved a little, for emphasis. As a dutiful child, I switched the light off as quickly as possible to avoid careening off the road into a ditch.
Flash forward some years: I have a license. I have a car. A friend is riding with me. He turns on the dome light for something and… everything is fine.
The same thing happened the first time I helped jumpstart a car. I’d been told so many times about everything that can go terribly wrong that I felt sure that it would end in a) an deadly storm of electricity and fire; or b) one or both of the cars being fried for good. Turns out, if you, ya know, just follow instructions, it works out fine.
If anything, the greatest risk of jumping a car–the one that no amount of how-to articles or Youtube videos can save you from–is the risk of wasting a favor. Because think about it: you spend all that time being a good friend and building up positive equity until you’ve almost got enough to cash in for pet care or help shlepping some furniture from your old apartment to your new one… Then your car battery farts out and now your buddy is driving over in the cold to help you get it started again.
That’s where this iJoy Jump Starter Kit comes in. Not only will it charge your phone and provide some you with some light; it’ll make it so that you don’t need to dip into the favor bank just to get your car running. So if you’re on the fence about whether you want to spend that $30, don’t think: Do I really need this? Think: Can I hire movers for that price?
The answer is no.
