Sure you can find plenty of options for a flashlight to have in your glove compartment, but what about a flashlight that can charge your phone or even jumpstart your car in an emergency? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the cool Scosche PowerUp 600 Torch and finds that there's a lot to like. It's big, but since it can hold its charge for up to 6 months the PowerUp 600 is a great addition to any vehicle's emergency kit.
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A flashlight so powerful it can start your car. Let's check this out
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Dave Taylor here, and there's a little more frustrating than trying to start your car and having it be dead
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But it turns out that when you're in a car, you might also need a flashlight
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So, enter SCOCH. Let me open this thing up. It's very slick
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This is the SCOCHEEEPS-P-600 torch. and it's a 2,000 mill-amp hour power bank
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and it'll hold a charge for six months. But it also is a 1,250-lux flashlight
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I'll go ahead and turn that on, and you can see it has four modes, so it has bright and not so bright
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and slow flash, and fast flash, and thankfully you can turn it off to
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So it has that, but if you unscrew the back, there are all sorts of other portals
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and plugs here. So you charge it with USB C, cables included, and then you can use USB3 for
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charging a device and it has jumper plugs because one of the cool things about this is that in its little carrying case it actually has what you need to be able to jumpstart a car So you just plug this in on the top
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and I am now ready to jumpstart my car if needed. So what does that look like? Well, it can push out a
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maximum of 600 amps at 29.6 watt hours. So they say you can do up to a 5-liter gasoline engine or 2
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liter diesel engine and it's a spark-free design they have a lot of safety circuits in here so you don't
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have to worry about if as you're putting it onto the battery you accidentally like touch them or something
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it's not going to spark it's not going to be anything scary it's the usual thing where you do this you
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plug the red one on then you either plug the black one on the negative terminal on your battery or
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somewhere on the metal of your car and then it has lights that indicates what's going on you go around
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you start your car and it immediately turns off once the car is started so it's another great safety feature
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So I can't really demonstrate this in my Hellcat because it doesn't need a battery charge
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But suffice to say it a very simple design and having it in this little container with everything you need is terrific because at its most basic functionality I actually do find that I need flashlights more often than not
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If it's nighttime, I need to find something I've dropped, or there's some issue with the car
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or I'm just helping someone out on the side of the road. So having this big, powerful flashlight is really nice
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But having all of the additional features with the charging on the back, and of course the jump start in an emergency situation, all of that's
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a win. So on the back I will say that that USB 3 port, and here's a close up by the way, so that
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USB 3 port is a 2.4 amp USB charging port, so it is actually something that as long as you
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have the right cable, you should be able to charge really any smartphone or tablet. Nice and
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easy. It is 10.5 inches long, 2.4 inches across, and it's 23.5 ounces, so it's not the
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lightest flashlight in the world, but I really like not having to like throw away D batteries and get new ones
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So all this left to talk about is the price. So before we get to the price, give me some feedback
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Give me a thumbs up, give me some comments, letting me know what you wish I would have shown
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And of course if you so inspired go ahead and subscribe to my channel Really appreciate that I am really straightforward with my reviews and honest and candid so y can trust me So subscribe Thank you Now this is the Scosh Power Up 600 Torch It 9999 at scosh but I noticed that they have a 15 promo so assuming that still available that would take it down to 8499 Now that expensive for a flashlight but for a flashlight that can also jumpstart your car
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in an absolute emergency, that's not a bad investment. And then just set a reminder on your phone every three months
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to pull it out and charge it up fully to make sure it's always available. Of course, it runs for six months on a charge
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Or actually, it'll hold a charge for six months. It would be more accurate. But, you know, it's always good to have it at least 50% charged
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So that's all I got. I will hope that this will be interesting to you
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And I will catch you in my next video
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