[Qcwa] Re: Coleman "Powermate"

Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:27:34 -0500

There were a number of people on the Connecticut ARES list who bought these
unit from a closeout store and were quite happy with them for the money. I
don't have any specific details. I only remember that they were happy, and
the closeout store ran out of them.

73,

Mark W1EOF

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of Jeffrey D Angus
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 1:06 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: [Qcwa] Re: Coleman "Powermate"
>
>
> Ok, it took me a while to hunt it down.
>
> Coleman, the lantern people, licensed their name to Team Products
> International, TPI.
> TPI is selling things under the name "Coleman Powermate"
> It looks like you're battery thing has been discontinued. Basically,
> what you've got
> there is probably a gel type sealed lead acid battery.
> For running a hand held, it's probably just fine. As far as being able
> to "Jump start"
> your car through the cigarette lighter.....well, heh, The idea on that
> is to dribble
> enough energy from the powermate battery back into a "dead" car battery
> first,
> then hope the car catches on the first try.
>
> http://www.coleman.com
> http://www.coleman.com/coleman/colemancom/newsrelease.asp?searchty
pe=any&searchcriteria=powermate&releasenum=222

http://www.teamproducts.com/index.html
http://www.colemanpowermateworks.com/

Jeff
wa6fwi

[email protected] wrote:

> Jeffrey, thanks for answering my query. I hope you can accept attachments.
This is a scan
>(in monochrome) of the ad I saw and was wondering about.
>

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