Vanair Expands Roadside Jump-Pack With New Adapter Kits
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NEW ORLEANS — , a provider of roadside restart and mobile generator products, has s for its dual voltage Start-All Jump-Pack lithium-ion jump-starter by .
These adapters enable the jump-starter to serve military, construction, mining and agricultural equipment and transit buses along with a broad range of gas and diesel engines and vocational vehicles.
Vanair presented the adapter kits and their components during a March 3 news conference at the .
The company’s products offer an alternative to traditional clamps, which can be difficult to use in the dark and during heavy precipitation when performing roadside restarts, said , Vanair’s director of sales.
The specialist adapters offer cleaner connections and therefore cleaner jump-starts, Steer added.
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There are three adapters on offer: a NATO connector for military vehicles, an Anderson or forklift connector, and an SAE J1283 or Whitaker/CAT connector.
Michigan City, Ind.-based Vanair said the NATO, Whitaker and Anderson adapter kits will be sold separately, and each comes with a corresponding connector and requisite components and cabling.
“Our three new adapter kits are major enhancements to our [Start-All Jump-Pack], making it even more viable as leading technology of its kind in the market today,” Steer said. “The kits’ components are easy to install on our Start-All Jump-Pack’s existing cables and significantly broaden the scope, scale and utility of these lightweight and portable jump-pack solutions.”
The adapter kits offer more flexibility for the Start-All jump-starter. (John Sommers II for Transport Topics)
Vanair unveiled the 12-24 volt Start-All Jump-Pack in October 2023. The company took a 12-volt product and made it into a 12-24-volt tool, Steer told reporters, adding that it had been very well received as more original equipment manufacturers shift away from 12-volt electrical architectures.
The jump-pack also employs Goodall Protect-All Safety Technology, making it easy to use on any vehicle and practically impossible for even novice technicians to reverse the polarity or apply the wrong voltage when attempting a jump-start, the company said.
Start-All can charge between four and 10 Class 8 over-the-road trucks on one charge, Steer told reporters, adding that the pack will charge from dead to 100% capacity in eight hours from a regular plug socket.
Weighing in at 18.5 pounds, Start-All also is much lighter than rival products that can weigh 45-50 pounds, Steer said.
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