Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

Right on, my wife paid $75 for the pedastal sink, faucet, toilet and matching bath towel bars etc.
And it was a pull from a newly constructed house.

I got my hobby workbench there also. I only paid $5 for it! This is the Man Cave, most important room in the house.

Notice the ceramic bird bath to the left of it. I use it as a candy dish.
I’m pretty proud of that idea :slight_smile:

I see you have the B&D car battery charger in the middle of the table, it was on clearance here for $20 so i got one, how much was yours?

If you have BLF set to it’s default setting of 30 posts to the page this link should bring you to my teardown in this very same thread.

it’s post 1165 if that doesn’t work for you

Considering i posted just before that post i must have read it, but i didn’t remember it (probably because i didn’t buy it till months later). Odd that we paid the same price!
It will only charge a nexus 4 once then be down to under 40%, so i suspect a linear driver, and if the same for 12V i don’t see how it could boost a car (but i hope it does), plus it would be burning 6V doing so, so a very strange setup.

That pack contains 6S1P Samsung 20Q’s. A 20Q is 2000mAh, or 2Ah.
When this pack is not used to actually jump start a car but rather as a portable battery charger. The directions tell us to connect it to the battery either with the jumpers or thru the cigarette lighter. Most cigarette lighters are fused for 10A, so we know this pack outputs less than that. Say 6A and if that is the case, then connecting it for 10 minutes it will have put back 6A x 10/60 hours or 1Ah which is about half the capacity of the pack. That would give you about 10 seconds of cranking power. (my estimate)

Say it takes 400A to crank start a car. We just put in 1Ah of energy into the car battery with this pack, so

(400A) x (10 sec) x (1 min/60 sec) x (1 Hr/60 min) = 1.111Ah, (1111mAh)
That is about equal to what this pack will put into a car battery when connected for 10 minutes.

BTW, If you can’t start your car within 10 seconds of cranking, you’re out of luck. So if you have a weak battery AND an engine that needs a tuneup, you’re screwed :stuck_out_tongue:

I and others have already used this for that purpose, and it works. But only if you follow the instructions.

Also I might add, I have gotten cars started over the years with ordinary extension cords. In a pinch, cut the plugs and use the wires to connect the batteries of both vehicles. And yes, 16ga wire will work for this :slight_smile:
Once again, wait about 10 minutes, because in this case also, you are not jump starting the car but rather charging the battery.

I don’t disagree that the energy needed to start a car is low, you can get capacitor packs (home made) that hold as much cumulative energy as 1 x 18650 and it will start a car, because the 6 eneloops worth of energy is delivered in 1-2 amazingly high discharge power seconds, but can a battery brought from 0% charge to under 5% start a car?
Apparently the answer is yes.

I know that it charges the battery instead of starting off the li ion battery because of the time stated in the instructions and the Samsungs can’t output 250C! I am still skeptical but i assume it must work if its on the market without nonstop bad reviews, i guess its one of those has to be seen to be believed things.

We are talking here about “topping” off a Lead Acid battery that is just under being capable of turning over the engine.
A Lead Acid battery at 0% is ruined.

That is why it is a mistake to let the starter go into full stall when trying to start a car. All that does is drain the battery even more.
As soon as that happens, use this. It is your last chance. Drain the battery too low before using this and you’re not going to be successful.

I’ll keep that in mind

Part of it could be how a lead acid battery charges, the idea of a surface charge. Almost dead to can start a car isn’t a big step, the battery just has no real reserve beyond a few seconds.

This bulb has been driving me CRAZY for months now. It’s a BIG LED bulb and was originally $80. Months ago it hit the “6” price and then the “3”. I would have thought it would have gone to a penny by now, in fact I have taken one up many many times over the last few months hoping………
Here it is, 300W replacement and boasting 3300 lumens. It does have a large, non standard base, so it would not simply screw into an Edison E37 socket. But who cares, I just want one to rip apart.

Here are some other deals going on.
This Makita bit set just hit the 3 price, 75% off

This is a bucket fan. I would call this a Red Neck airconditioner. Put it on a bucket of ice and blow chilled air around.
Was $100, but is now $40.04. They claim $100 but I know it was $79.95, that’s why the “4” price (50% off) is $40.04

When it hits $20.02, I’m in! This uses and includes a Ryobi compatible battery and charger.



I am seeing the Ridgid compressors at some HD’s at full price. Most stores are cleaned out at the $75.03 price

This same store has the floor jack and jack stand combo at full price.

AND
The “hearse” lady has a load of old stock.
Or is THAT what they do with anyone caught penny shopping :confounded:

I was interested in that too.
It has an E27 base with an adapter. You can screw it into an E27 socket.

You couldn’t have staged that picture better :slight_smile:

gotta admire their entrepreneurial spirit, they sell the bones of “former” customers to scare kids :smiley:

I KNOW you have been interested in that bulb, you have been posting pictures as the price went down.
I am reposting YOUR pictures.


Now mine again….

Everyone should note the progression in the prices. It goes from full price, $79.97
To the “00” price of $59.00
Then the “6” price of $47.06
Then the “3” price of $20.03

I AM WAITING FOR THE PENNY PRICE, c’mon already!

I think it will get gobbled up as soon as it hits a penny, hopefully you can go to the store several times a day between now and a cent

Going to the same HD store several times per day is epitome of dedication.

The problem is that bulb should have already gone to a penny over a month ago. It doesn’t quite follow the rules.
It’s date IS old enough, and during the last month I must have marched one up to the checkout 25 times!

darn, it will henceforth be known as the lightbulb of frustration
(also its not sold in Canadian HDs, at least its not on the website)

Well, if you look on the US web site you won’t see it either.
It’s on clearance.

Unless we are talking about something at full list price, it will NOT be on the web site.

True enough, often things you bought at a penny are still full price here.
Those 1500 lumen daylight bulbs you got for a penny still sell for $9.99 here, they even released a new two bulb package of the same bulbs after you bought yours at a penny.