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| Thread ID: 80785 | 2007-07-05 05:25:00 | 12v Jump Starters. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 565979 | 2007-07-05 07:02:00 | Not being a gambler,will it work or won't it,will use my 2nd cars battery. An Aston Martin heavily disguised as an Echo. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 565980 | 2007-07-05 07:35:00 | Was thinking of getting a 12v jump starter . The one in question is 900amp and costs $80 . Opinions on these would be much appreciated . Car was found with flat battery,due to light left on,would have done the trick . Not being a gambler,will it work or won't it,will use my 2nd cars battery . An Aston Martin heavily disguised as an Echo . Today 05:47 PM I believe it would work if the problem was "just lights left on" . Plus . . . How many times have come across a motorist in distress pathetically standing next to car shaking head . Envision this . . . . you pull up and ask, Do you need a jump start? You get out of you car, not making eye contact or even looking at the car . You open the boot, pull out your Jumpstart 4000 with spotlight with cig lighter accessory slot, from the boot of your car . You saunter on over and say pop the hood, you plug the Jumpstart 4000 onto the battery and then you simply look at the bewildered motorist and nod your head . The car starts - and you hear a sigh from inside the car . You unplug and drop the bonnet and with a raise of your eyebrows you walk back to your car as the thank you, thank you subsides in the darkness . You jump in your car and . . . . . . ooops you forgot to turn off you lights . |
sam m (517) | ||
| 565981 | 2007-07-05 07:48:00 | And the other driver has driven off towing your Jumpstart 4000 by the cables caught when you dropped the bonnet. You just "unplugged" it, Sam. :( | Graham L (2) | ||
| 565982 | 2007-07-05 07:53:00 | And the other driver has driven off towing your Jumpstart 4000 by the cables caught when you dropped the bonnet. You just "unplugged" it, Sam. :( It just got worse - no cellphone coverage... arrgghhh!! :help: |
sam m (517) | ||
| 565983 | 2007-07-05 07:56:00 | Not cheap, if battery flat I thought you said? i think the projecta is a resonable make. it seams sam m has confirmed what i said about having to wait for it to charge up the vechile bat. $80 is not that much to spend. a alrm on the lights might be good idea so you don't forget they are on. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 565984 | 2007-07-05 08:09:00 | i... sam m has confirmed what i said about having to wait for it to charge up the vechile bat.... I actually meant that if you were to come back to your car to discover you lights were still on and battery flat, then (with out jumpstart thingy, and conditions allow) you could just wait it out and the car may start as the battery recovers. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 565985 | 2007-07-05 09:49:00 | I actually meant that if you were to come back to your car to discover you lights were still on and battery flat, then (with out jumpstart thingy, and conditions allow) you could just wait it out and the car may start as the battery recovers. oops sorry, scrub what i said. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 565986 | 2007-07-05 11:18:00 | When we had our Commodore VL I am sure someone once told me that jump starters shouldn't be used on cars with electronic something-or-others. Isn't that true or have I got mixed up with something else? Maybe you had to be careful how you did it in case you wrecked it? | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 565987 | 2007-07-05 18:32:00 | They work pretty good . . . I used them a lot in the trade to get that one started that got dropped off by a tow truck, and one that hasn't started for a few weeks . . but they DO have limits . YES . . they DO a V8 too . Diesels on the other hand might require a few of them all at one time to help . I'd buy the largest one I could find . . . but all in all, they do as they say . Just either keep it charged via house current or the optional 12V interface by the lighter socket all the time . I keep one around for other than primary use reasons too . . . . they are good sources for 12v to run a laptop or CD player or whatever else requires 12v . When you change a vehicle battery, it's a good idea to have it plugged into the lighter socket too to keep the volatile memory settings on the radio and the adaptive strategies in the ECU from getting de-res'd . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 565988 | 2007-07-05 18:42:00 | When we had our Commodore VL I am sure someone once told me that jump starters shouldn't be used on cars with electronic something-or-others . Isn't that true or have I got mixed up with something else? Maybe you had to be careful how you did it in case you wrecked it? Hmmm . . My Commodore C>64 and C>128 never needed jump starting . . but then again I never ever saw a C>VL If you are using another vehicle to jump through cables to a dead one, then . . YES . . there is a slight chance of spikes or glitches that MIGHT harm the ECM in the dead vehicle . . . but that's not too likely as the dead battery makes a pretty good capacitor-filter to keep the spikes out of the line anyway . POLARITY mix-up are an entirely different and usually totally damaging problem! Just the fact that the wrong polarity happened for even the briefest of nanoseconds, the damage is already done . ECMs are pretty rugged, and some may survive this assault . . but I feel the alternator is gonna get it in the shorts no matter how instantaneous the connection is/was . And . . . NEVER NEVER NEVER run an engine and then disconnect the battery to 'SEE' if the alternator's working . It will usually cease working at that same moment . It needs the battery on the other end of it's charging circuit all the time or it goes just nuts and fries it's regulator or diodes trying to charge something that's not there . Old wives' tales die hard . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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