NEW Jump Start Box DEAD - CAN it be FIXED? 

Great reminder that if somethings already broken you're not going to break it even more if you open it up to take a look, and it doesn't take Big Clive to diagnose and fix a faulty solder joint. Thanks for the vid!

Another great video! I know several people that would have just thrown this away. Awesome to see it get fixed instead of thrown away.

I like the way you tin your soldering iron's tip every time. I always forget that. In fact, I had forgotten about that over the years. Good technique. You're a fearless kind of a guy. I learn a lot. The best one I learned from you was the Honda generator connection to a bulk tank. I did that on my two-Honda power station for my fifth wheel built into my truck bed box. Thank you.

i really do enjoy your videos. The explanations are clear and really easy to follow. Tips and tricks are well covered in plenty enough detail.Really good balance. Never being blinded by science nor dumbed down. you take the time to make video shots cover exactly what we need to see. Thanks for your work. Keep doing what you do. And Ginger doggy. so clever! So loyal!! reminds me of my own sheepdog, Roxy. (GSD x Border Collie). I have a little video of her on my channel. she made it to 20 yro. Really REALLY liked me bouncing tennis balls on tarmac hard so she could run and still catch. Thanks.

if for some reason you want to keep the beeper, but it's just too damn loud. A piece of tape over the top of them will often attenuate the volume dramatically.

Came for the repair, stayed for the dog. Great save. I have a microwave that has the loudest and most annoying beep I’ve ever heard. I keep hoping the microwave will take a dump so I can justify opening it up.

Great diagnosis Bud!! It's nice when an electrical problem just jumps out like that!!☻

I thought it would be a bad battery like most of them are. I just discovered your channel and you have got some good videos with good examples of troubleshooting and problem solving. You caught that bad solder joint pretty quickly. I like your logical approach to the diagnostic.

Nice fix I have a booster box that I bought at Sam's club about 20yrs ago the battery finally died about 6yrs ago I found the exact replacement on eBay for $34 with free shipping I took it apart and installed the new one It still works great

Great job Moe, as always great teaching, thorough, easy to understand, and helpful.

Not 2 weeks ago I opened mine up. It was about 20 years old.. It's been dead on my shelf for years and totally forgotten, but I opened it up and it was the exact same battery as inside of yours!! I also liked charging mine off from a real battery charger and did it by hooking the jumper leads to my charger leads. I'd heard you could not do that on some jump boxes and that people were trying it and popping a fuse of something inside. Mine was pretty simple and as long as the switch was closed, it charged.. I had to use mine as a booster for my trailer winch several times and man did that work well!!

Moe, I bought one of these also about a year ago from Sam’s Club and so far so good. But you always wonder. Thanks for the video, gives me somewhere to troubleshoot. This was probably built on a Friday afternoon. My compressor is comparable to the M12 Milwaukee I own. They are ok for a motorcycle or bike but a car tire is a challenge. You’re the man!

It makes you wander how much stuff gets thrown out that is a simple fix to get it going. I stopped buying Stanley products along time ago the quality just isn’t there anymore. Anyway thanks for sharing love your channel

The usb plug was hanging loose prior to you putting the cover back on. Thank you for all your vids. I’ve learned a lot.

You need to plug it in the wall outlet once a month to keep the battery from crapping out over time. That's what the instructions say anyway.

A majority of family appliance repairs or short lifespan electronics repairs that I have done were broken solder nodes. It's one of the first things I look for in a troubleshoot. Most of the time it's due to a cold solder joint on a larger gauge wire or component lead - operator or flow solder parameter error.

it will work when you plug in the board, that's amazing !

Saw the usb plug loose when u first took cover off… lol. I’d say a lot of those got tossed for simple things like that… good vid man!

That plug-in on the board magically plugged it's self back in 5:37.

Excellent diagnosis and repair. Glad you have all that knowledge and skill. Thanks for the video's

I added a new 20 amp hour battery to one of these fixing it for a friend. It also had a loose usb connection and the original battery was low capacity when I tested it. But the new one works great. Great video!

Shout out from your neighbor to the south, I live in Herriman. I really enjoy your channel and hopefully one day I'll run into you locally but I do a lot of my own repairs like this and can totally believe why it failed. Thanks for the great content and keep it up.

That was a good repair but Ginger definitely does NOT need a jump start. She jumps very well on her own. Thanks and GBWYall!

Great fix, when I buy a computer UPS I twist off the beeper, very easy, no un-soldering needed, just twist left & right and they come off the board cleanly.

You were blessed Moe , Most of those SLA batteries have full voltage and no amp hour after sitting , I do like to try them on the pulse charger and many revive for me .. I have a vid on that , So far I have found 1 in 4 come back to 90% .. That one was just a bad wiring job by the builder as they are so mass produced !

Great fix on a free power pack ..It would be a nice one to take camping I had a 74 Nova and had that Irritating seat belt buzzer I could not get it un plugged so I crushed it with my pliers and once in a while it would still work and make a low growling sound that sounded so funny like it was dying

Thanks for showing this. Awesome video. Great all around tips 👍 all through out. thanks for your time. And your dog is awesome! 🐕 I appreciate you showing me what's in mine beofre I take my cover off of it

The dog was an added treat to this video.

As typical, electronics doesn't like to work without power. Not really unusual to see bad solder joints in so many electronic items. They just don't do quality solder connections properly unless it is a high end product. Thumbs Up!

I've seen this happen & fixed quite a few myself. Solder flows onto the tinned the wire but if you don't get enough heat transfer to the pad, it can fool your eye into thinking it's fine, so you look closer & no bueno!!🤣🤣

A small piece of duct tape over the hole on the beeper might of been a better 'fix', but I understand the annoyance. Great video on eliminating waste.

I had a feeling you were going to open it up a third time and delete the beeper LOL, I would’ve done the same, great video thank you

We find these on the trash route a lot and my boss doesn’t want them being ran through the packer because of fire risk. We send them in once a year for the lead. Interesting to see if maybe they can be fixed.

Thanks saw this in for market. The guy said won’t work. For 10.00 how could I go wrong? Loose wire…score works great!! Thank you for your video to help me fix it!✌️❤️

I extremely appreciate this video!! My girl picked one of these up for me out of our neighbors trash because my neighbor said it didn't work! Well it did!! And with this video I learned A LOT more about it!!! Thank you very much!!!

When i worked at farm and fleet, they sold those Stanley jump packs, it was part of my job to remove the batteries from the defected ones because they were destroy/ no return to vendor. I fixed almost every single one before i destroyed it. I asked the manager once what the return rate was, 20%.

I freaking love how much I learn from this channel!

Thanks for the video, especially about how to take it apart. I keep mine in my truck tool box since it is a lead acid battery. I probably wouldn't do that with a lithium battery because of the heat.

I actually got this exact same one that one of my tenants left in our property. The issue with mine was one of the buttons was broke and stuck inside the unit. I opened it to repair the button and reassembled it. Evidently just as you did, I hit the connector for the USB ports and disconnected it. It was doing the exact thing yours was, flashing and wouldn't turn off. I figured it was probably something in the circuitry and was going to tear back into it when I had time. Then out of nowhere you posted this video! I swear it was just a couple days ago I was working on mine and I was looking for videos to see if I could get an idea of what was wrong. Seeing your discovery of the connector, I knew exactly what was wrong with mine. I was so excited I paused your video grabbed mine and fixed it in less than 5 minutes. Thank you for that! More than likely I would have discovered the problem when I tore back into it, but I'm sure it would have been days maybe weeks down the road. Now it works perfectly! I may go back in and delete the beeper as well!

I was stranded years ago and got the idea to try and jump my jeep using my old 18 volt NiCad DeWalt pack. I had known from a kids power wheels expierment which terminal was positive so I hooked my cables up using a couple screws to hook onto the batt. Tabs. Not sure how the lipo packs would act but I would definitely try if needed.

I have the exact same one. It would be really awesome if you did a video on how do use your voltage meter. I know enough to be dangerous about one, but the truth is it’s kind of like dark magic for most people. Love your show brother. Need to get that old Ford on the road. I got my 63 Ford F250 run and last year, my kids and wife love driving it around with me to go get ice cream. I’ve had that old 63 Ford since 1995.

When my kids were young, I would delete the beep function of whatever toy they had.

Gotta love o'l Ginger...I've found the same problem on some ceramic heaters..i guess there building them a little too fast..

I put one of these jump pack style batteries into my 22hp zero turn mower, works well. In freezing weather if I need to start it I always supplement with another jump pack at cold start, but subsequent starts are fine. In summer it cold starts just fine. It's lasted way longer than the standard lead acid batteries that the mower came with.

I purchased one in 2008 at Sam's Club and still works today. They are well made.

I bought a fancy Everstart jump box in March. It's made by the same company that produces the same ones branded Stanley and CAT. It showed a 12.7v charge at purchase and jumped just fine for 7 months since I recharged it after each use with my 12v 400w inverter. Then I used it to recharge my cellphone overnight when being used. That dragged the jump battery down to 4.5v. Recharged it back to 13.8v where it dropped to 12.8v then 12.6v during the day. Tried using the jump feature on my car to find it no longer came on when the start button was pressed. The icons did show up when connected wrong or after the motor was running. I called their customer service to be told it was due to using the wrong 110v current. Somehow it needs that from a wall outlet only to get a full charge. Bought a new battery then recharged the box when driving by using the inverter for the next two months. The inverter fan would shut off when the inverter inside the jump box went into trickle charge mode. It did that at 13.9V but the battery would lose enough charge overnight to return to 12.6v with no jump starting. Think it took over 40 hours on trickle charge to get the battery fully charged to stay at 12.8v for weeks on end when not being used with the start button/jump start feature now functional.

Good info! I have one of them and it’s dead. Can’t wait to crack the case!

Good call on that one. And a good fix. I have one of those battery analyzers. comes in hand.

I'm with you with these beeps. Everything beeps, I even got rid of the microwave and changed it for an early one without all the digital beeps every time you press something. Start a movement, I'll be your man in the UK branch.

Pop bought a coffee maker at a black Friday store , I had to take it apart to find they never plugged the power switch .. Easy fix an Pop is happy with it

I have a lawn mower battery, with vice grips holding half a set of jumper cables on it...it is 100 times better a jump pack than any of these little jump boxes with SLA batteries. I've had those things go dead in as little as a year, the SLA battery actually going flat. And as he said, they NEVER have the cranking amps they say, nor can they crank anything over for more than minute or so before going flat.

Good diagnosis and slick fixes.

i have this same one i got used for 40 bucks. it kinda works. i replaced the battery, but it's still iffy. i have 4 others i got for free because they wouldn't hold a charge, and just replaced the battery and they work as they should. i haven't really checked out the stanley again yet. it has a lot more going on inside than the others.

I got mine half price new last summer. I used it all winter. Well worth the money. I am definitely going to delete the annoying buzzer on my unit too.

I have a Cummins with 2 1000 Amp batteries and I found a 6000 Amp lithium 12v Avapow at Walmart for $ 93.00 and glad I did . My truck batteries are 3 years old and I have had to use the jump start 3 times. Really surprised.

As soon as you apologized for the beeping the first time I thought to myself oh I would have to remove that beeper. Right at the end I noticed that the brand new tennis ball rolled across the floor and that may have not been the first time it rolled across the floor but it was in the video and when he went to put it on his dog's nose it was covered in grease and grime.

Your dog is truly “man’s best friend”. I have some pretty new Ryobi batteries that went on the fritz. Ryobi sent me new ones. Which was super cool. I wonder if u could use your diagnostic skills and find the problem. Thank u.

Got one just like it had it for about three or four years used it maybe five times last time took a charge but then it died started to throw it out before I did I took it apart the positive lead to the battery nut bolt came loose and fell off negative side was just loose unbelievable almost threw it out works perfect now

FYI: A tiny bit of phosphoric acid added to the battery acid in a battery will cut WAY down on the sulphation and allow it to desulphate during charging with minimal damage to the lead plates. Just FYI

After you fix it make sure to keep the air pump running less than 10 mins and let it cool afterward for at least 30 mins. It will burn that thermal out

Came to watch you save another item from the landfill. Stayed to see Ginger close the show.

Good score (on the jump start box). Perfect Ginger.

Good diagnostic and fix.

I just replaced the battery in my old harbor freight 3-in-1 jump starter, same as this really, same switch, same battery, none of the electronicals. I removed the analog battery guage and put in a digital one as I prefer them, and found the little wall wart they had in it was only 12v 500ma, no wonder it never charged the darned thing. I replaced with a 13.8v 500ma and it charges perfectly now. They are incredibly simple devices.

I have one of these, doesn’t work great but I’m definitely doing the beep delete

I've had that same jump pack for over 5 years it's been a good one.

I loved watching your video! I bought 1 exactly like this maybe close to a year ago, but recently the darn thing started beeping repeatedly even in the off position. I tried charging it back up to full charge, but only to suffer from constant repeating beep, plus led display stays lit. At 1 point the led lights wouldn't come on nor would the USB ports light up. Still kept beeping, so I guess once battery runs down it will stop. I liked having the compressor/jump starter around & extra USB charging ports if electricity ever went out. Do you know why it won't turn off, what I can do to fix it? I'm pretty handy, my Dad was a mechanical engineer, taught me a lot, but is gone now. Thanks in advance ☺

Thank you and you did it again gave us a great video great entertainment I wish I was a smarter as you.. I can’t even remember how to wire tractor up anymore Old one..

Looks like they have "improved" the electronic mountings. I got one where the boards had fallen off inside the case. It had 2 black plastic brackets on either side of the main board that didnt really hold the board. I see on yours they made one piece that went across the board. Also on yours there is a metal bracket that holds the wall wart charger in place, mine didnt have that and was loose but still in place. The solder connections for the charger were crap do it wouldn't charge. Fixed that and it works now. There just crap units with no quality control. Least we both got one for free. 😅

notice @3:58 the usb board connector is disconnected then @6:36 until 9:14 it's connected, then @11:52 it's disconnected again until it get fixed (again?) @12:00! Still good info!!

Nice job I have one I need to take apart and look at....probably the same issue. Accept everything works except the jumper cables

I suspected a bad solder joint. I've run into that with stuff made in China. Apparently they don't teach their workers how to solder. Good fix.

Great video Mo! I bought one of these tested from your link!!

One man's junk is another man's treasure!

Wow... I have one of these that is doing the same thing as this one. I was going to throw it away, but I may try this.

Nice job of Troubleshooting . Great Find . I Would have got rid of the Beeper too. I have A (Older) 2000 Ha Ha ! or so B&D That still Works fine Even Though it Been Sitting Mostly.

Your dog is so smart

Great vid ! Well done and explained ! Crazy how easy something slips through the QC of those 11 year old boys in PRC..... would love to see you build (using one of the current jump pack cases) a seriously powerful jump pack that you’d be able to actually rely on in an off grid sitn for more than just one or two jumpstarts and a tire inflation.

i have one and thank you for showing me how to fix it my did same thing and i put it on the side now i can fix it thank you

Bought myself nice LED portable light from Costco but it stopped charging after a week. The micro usb solder mount/electrical connection broke lose. Super easy fix, just have to poke around a bit.

Very cool, thabks.

Yes those black and decker power screwdriver are the best tool in the tool box my nefew gave me one for Christmas over 10 years ago and I thought what a usless peice of junk but I soon found it's the best tool I've found

That was a easy fix! Nice way to get a free jump box

Coool fix.great when it actually jumps out at ya like that eh, good job!

Youll find a non insulated flat pc board 1" x1/4" with a copper strip in the board one wire in one out. Ill bet thatll be your prob. A-YX01 C478338 reverse RU 94V-0 if you need it. You had your fingers on the thermal fuse seconds before you found the short. It has heat shrink tubing on the fuse itself.

Great video thanks!

Way to go man saved thanks for sharing

A common case of a cold solder joint boogers up electronics! All too often in the RC community I see fellers that have issues with their stuff, & it turns out to be a cold solder joint!

That dog is amazing

Great video! Can you tell me how you would repair a broken button? I have an issue with mine right now, battery status button is stuck down and the unit won't stop beeping led screen stays lit. Thank you for your help

Thanks from millwright mac Las vegas

I've got a couple booster packs that Ive been thinking of lithium swapping.

Oh those piezo beepers are indeed so annoyingly loud. I've removed few and if I've wanted to have notification nice trick is to screw something like m3 screw into them and it dampens level immediately to something like less than half of original 🙂

I have that same one it works great

Great learning experience 👍 👌

Saw that solder joint move

Nice fix

Good troubleshooting.

those flashing lights means it needs a full charge, 40 hrs is what mine says for a full charge from complete discharge.

Good job Moe! You should give it to your brother in law for a house warming present lol