First time powering up my battery pack at a restaurant (camper van)

I should just look like a student or professor sitting around studying. That big yellow thing in my backpack is the battery I use to run my TV in the van off of, as well as hair clippers (tested them) and can charge my phone and laptop and tablet and nintendo switches if my smaller power bricks run out of electricity.

I'm still on the fence about getting a electric generator. I don't know if I can jump the van's battery during a snow storm with this or not, or if I can keep it charged off my car's cugarette lighters. I think I'm capped at 180watts to 200watts, and it takes a while to charge this up.

Plus it's been a long time since I've last used a portable jumper, and amazon now has extra discriptions for 6L engines or 7.5 and I'm scratching my head on what qould work on my van. I obviously can use a trickle charger, but don't k ow if I'll be sitting around for hours before it starts up, or if it can jump immediately and I can just charge it deeper over hours. I've only used the trickle charger on a old scooter, and it never went dead, and on a dodge durango, and it was dead dead. I'm looking at the cheapest solution that is compact and doesn't take up much space.

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I bought a NOCO Boost Plus 1000 AMP jump starter for the boat in case we wore down the battery playing tunes. I fully charge it in spring, stow it on the boat and take it out for the winter when we store the boat.

We came home from vacation in January to a totally dead battery in our pickup(dome light.) The NOCO charger had not been charged since before the boating season started in May, Started my 5.3L gas engine in the time it took to walk from the battery to the ignition at 10F.

My charger comes in a 3"x4"x8"(?) box. Very compact. It has a USB OUT as well(and a flashllight), but I haven't had reason to use/test that at all.