Black & Decker VEC026BD Electromate 400 Jump-Starter with Built-In Air Compressor

Not great for accesories or household items. Will jump a car.
Takes forever to charge and doenst seem to hold a charge for long.

Bought this from Home Depot for $99, plan on using it camping. I inflated two aero beds, a football and let a small fan run continously for 6 hours until it died. Great little unit however just a little heavy for a long hike in camp spot.

I received this model as a gift for Christmas 07. It did in fact save me one morning from a dead battery. That was the first and only time I used it for that purpose. The next time I tried using it, the battery was totally dead.. So dead it wouldn't power the LED lights on the front. It sat in the garage plugged in the whole time. Whether this was a bad idea or not, I don't know.

The compressor worked decently for topping off tires. I just (today) purchased a replacement internal battery from zbattery dot com for over $70 after shipping. I was half tempted to just replace this, but thirty bucks is thirty bucks. And if you do have to replace the battery, the innards of this thing are a booger to get to. More screws and wires than I expected.

We recieved this for x-mas '07. We use it all the time. We have a boat and have loaned it out to other boat owners at the lake many many times to jump start their boat. We've used it on a truck twice when we left the interior light on all night. We also use it to air up bike tires. During bad weather (we live in OK) we have used it to power our cable and tv during storms when they knocked out the power to the rest of the house (tornado season). Very useful. I would recommend everyone have one of these. We will probably buy more one for each one of our vehicles.

This works very easily and does its job. Haven't tried the tire pump yet. Hope not to have to use it. Just remember to recharge this every 60 days so it will still work.