There are the roll away charge/starters that have massive deep cycle batteries. I had a feller at the body shop drag a pair over to get the E300D to spin up.
those did work clay On Feb 21, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > This is timely.... > > I'm sitting at my tire guy's place while their boost charger gives the diesel > some juice. If you recall, I ran it down last night but charged it back up > after 45 minutes and it lit right off. Same thing this morning - lit right > off after a short glow. > > Tire guys brought out one of those jumper packs and it did nothing. I wasn't > surprised. > > I'm going to charge the crap out of it when I get home and probably swap out > the battery for the MB battery that was in the S500 coupe. It's been on a > maintenance charger for a couple of months just waiting to be used. > > Dan > >> On Feb 21, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> Save your money. I've never seen one with enough guts to start a Diesel. >> It is better to carry a set of 4 ga to 0 ga jumper cables. Or, at lease 6 >> ga. those will work to charge the battery enough to start the engine if you >> give them 5-10 min of charging, but they will get hot. >> >> >>> If I decided I wanted to have a jump start pack, how burly does it need to >>> be to be able to, say, start the OM606 from dead battery status? >>> >>> Bob R >> >> First time I ever saw one, I was working for the Univ out at the old >> research reactor site, driving the 240D. 15-20 below, the car would not >> start. The univ jump start guys walk out with this jump pack thing and clip >> it on. It was exactly like nothing was there. >> >> I politely suggested if they have real jumper cables, that they should try >> that. They did, and it started right up. >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
