What is best battery jump starter
Which Car Jump Starter Is Best? Let's find out! NOCO GB40 vs Duracell vs Audew
should you just throw out those old
jumper cables and buy yourself a
portable jump starter after all some of
these products claim to provide up to
2200 pants that's about twice as much as
a car battery are they really just that
good or are some of these products just
not going to deliver on the results they
promised today we're going to be testing
eight different brands to see which
brand is the best and the first test
will measure the cranking amps produced
by the portable jumpstarters at
seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit will
compare the lithium jumpstarters with
two other types of jump starters
including a super capacitor and sealed
lead-acid will compare the cold cranking
amps of these batteries when the
temperatures are at zero degrees
Fahrenheit we'll see if any of these
batteries are powerful enough to
jumpstart a vehicle that has a dead
battery we'll see if any of these
jumpstarters can start a diesel tractor
without any help from the tractors
battery costing $70.99 is this I do
multi-function jump starter it claims to
have a battery capacity of 20,000
milliamp hours starting current 500 amps
peak current 1500 amps operating
temperature negative 20 degrees Celsius
to approximately 60 degrees Celsius not
only is it a jump starter it's also a
power bank and can be used to power
electronics and it has a flashlight
pretty nice little carrying bag
instruction manual USB type-c the USB
type-c you can use a wall outlet to
charge this device when it comes to
getting an accurate test result you
can't use these electronic testers now
these are great for flooded lead-acid
batteries or AGM cells but these will
not provide accurate results on lithium
ion batteries instead we'll be using a
carbon pile test in addition to the
carbon pile tested which will give us
the number of amps that this battery can
produce I've got an ohmmeter hooked up
to the carbon pile tester and will
measure the current being produced by
each one of these units okay I just
selected the boost button which you give
us some voltage the voltage on the I do
is sixteen point four three what we do
now is turn up the Carbon pile tester
and get as many amps as we can out of it
under load it peaked out at three
hundred four amps and around 10 volts
dropping to two hundred amps after four
seconds before the testers shut off
that's actually pretty impressive in
more than adequate to start most
vehicles that have a partially drained
battery the I do start off at a hundred
percent it's now down to eighty four
percent after the test costing seventy
four dollars
99 cents the second least expensive
product we'll be testing is this Viking
compact power pack which is sold at
Harbor Freight it's a jump starter USB
12-volt power bank and a flashlight only
450 peak amps 2.0 USB power ultra long
battery life lithium ion phosphate
battery holds 70 percent charge after
two years jump starter AC power adapter
the jumper cables and several other
adapters the Harbor Freight battery has
a twelve thousand milliamp hour capacity
the instructions use this device around
on the side of the power pack which is
very nice compared to some of the other
brands I got the power pack for the
Harbor Freight hooked up and I don't
have it turned on but it's already
producing 2.45 volts you can see that
it's present on both meters go ahead
power up the power pack it's fully
charged the Harbor Freight Vikings
started out at thirteen point two two
volts before the test and only produced
two hundred and sixteen amps at seven
point seven volts which seems unlikely
to start a vehicle with a partially
drained battery I just finished testing
the Viking from Harbor Freight and it
won't even power up anymore I don't know
if this thing is just overheated or what
exactly took place but this unit seems
to be out of power right now we're gonna
come back later and see if we can get
this unit to power up costing eighty
four dollars and ninety nine cents is
this San Roque jump starter he claims to
deliver 2,000 cranking amps and has a
16,000 milliamp hour capacity jumpstart
a car up to 20 times per charge charges
in a USB device like mobile phones
tablet digital camera etc pretty
nice-looking carrying bag
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he claims to have a starting voltage of
a thousand amps and peak current two
thousand hands for his accessories it
only has one cable for USB to USB type-c
and the jumper cables the san roque
started out at sixteen point eight three
volts before the test and topped out
around three hundred and forty four amps
at ten volts
kostik $89.99 is this DB power jump
starter it claims to be the king of
power twenty thousand eight hundred
milliamp hours peak current two thousand
amps starting current 1000 amps working
temperature negative four degrees
fahrenheit to 140 degrees fahrenheit in
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and out at USB type-c port two different
USB ports and a flashlight USB 2.0 two
USB type-c and the jumper cables the DB
power start out at sixteen point five
three volts it didn't do quite as well
as the i do or the san roque but much
better than the viking and produced two
hundred ninety-one amps at around ten
volts and lasted around six seconds
costing $89.99 is this toc vision
jump-started which claims to have 2200
cranking amps in a capacity of 20 1800
milliamp hours USB 2.0 2 USB type-c
jumper cables 2 USB outputs flashlight
the top vision started out at sixteen
point seven six volts it delivered an
impressive 338 amps and 10 volts which
is more than enough to get an engine to
spin over and start costing ninety nine
dollars and 69 cents this no code genius
boost plus gb 40 is the most expensive
lithium-ion jump starter we'll be
testing it claims to deliver a thousand
amps it claims to be able to start a six
liter gasoline engine or a three liter
diesel
even though the genius cost more it only
produces six thousand four hundred
milliamp hours compared the competition
Prakash less and produces around 20,000
milliamp hours USB out USB n jumper
cable port instead of a carrying case
there's a carrying bag jumper cables the
setup of the Naoko seems a little bit
different than the competition
the Naoko actually includes this
safety features inside the battery pack
not on the actual battery cables itself
power cable auxilary power to USB which
is used to charge the device GP 40 users
guide the Naoko GB 40 started out at
eleven point nine three volts and
produced two hundred and forty three
amps at seven volts costing $109.99 is
this more traditional style of jump
starter which is a sealed lead-acid that
claims to produce 900 peak amps it has a
battery power indicator and also an
emergency light until your power supply
USB power supply rotate to provide power
to the cables the Duracell start out at
thirteen point seven two volts it
produced two hundred and fifty five amps
at seven point 4 volts which is better
than the Naoko gb 40 and the harbor
freight viking but not nearly as good as
some of the other products we're testing
costing $129.99 is this auto wit 12-volt
battery Lascar jump starter ultra safe
convenient fast long lifespan
multi-application reliable in portable
peak current is seven hundred amps
working storage temperature minus forty
degrees celsius the sixty degrees
celsius battery charging time depends on
the amount of voltage you have in your
battery the auto it uses energy from
your drained battery to charge itself
and then start your car the only way it
will work using a battery that's nearly
drained if your battery is over ten
volts it takes between one and one-half
minutes to charge the auto wit and then
to start your car if the voltage is over
six volts but less than 10 volts it
takes approximately three minutes if
your battery is over four volts but less
than six then it takes ten minutes the
jumper cables and a super capacitor the
other wit doesn't have a carrying case
you have to use this box the auto wid
super capacitors started out at around
15 point 5 volts it produced 261 amps at
around 8 volts but quickly dropped under
200 volts and 7 amps jumpstart a
performance on the bench is a
combination of amps and volts the san
roque top vision i do in DB pair all
seemed very close without do producing
slightly higher voltage under load the
ottawa Duracell no koji be 40 and harbor
freight really struggled compared to the
competition by producing under 270 amps
and 8 volts or less car battery issues
really seemed to surface with the
temperature
below freezing so let's place these
jumper packs in a freezer that set to
around zero degrees Fahrenheit and see
how they perform the temperature inside
the freezer is negative 20 degrees so
close enough to zero degrees Fahrenheit
so let's get the testing underway the
outdo really struggle to do is chop only
producing a hundred and ninety seven
amps and seven volts for about two
seconds there in a second attempt it did
a lot better at two hundred thirty eight
amps and seven point three volts the
third attempt produced two hundred
eighty four amps at over eight faults so
the lithium batteries do improve a lot
as they warm up from being used a Viking
only produced one hundred thirteen amps
at three point six volts
what was that alright the Harbor Freight
device will even power up after one
attempt so unfortunately I think the
Harbor Freight device is done for now
the San Roque just like the Ottawa
needed three attempts to warm up a
little and on the third attempt produced
two hundred five amps and seven volts
which isn't nearly as good as the I do
the DB power also needed three attempts
and it produced a hundred eighty eight
amps and seven volts on a third attempt
so not nearly as good as the I do jump
starter the top vision also benefited
from three attempts with the third
attempt producing two hundred and fifty
four amps and eight volts which is just
behind the I do as far as performance
the no Co genius GB forty only produced
one hundred and forty-five amps and four
volts which is slightly better than the
Harbor Freight Viking but not nearly as
good as the competition the duracell
start out at thirteen point three two
volts the duracell produced 119 amps and
five point three four volts on the first
attempt and it didn't give up like the
lithium-ion jumpstarters I ended the
test after around ten seconds after
allowing each of the batteries multiple
attempts they warmed up and performance
improved the I do seem to come out on
top with the top vision in a close
second and the san roque doing fairly
well also the Naoko boost gb forty and
harbor freight viking really struggled
producing less than 150 amps and around
four volts let's get the bench testing
results translate into real world
capability on an old Ford Ranger pickup
truck that has a drained battery the
Ranger has a 2.9 liter v6 up next when
the tests of super capacitor it has
about 3.45 volts in it and this battery
is extremely drained at a little over
seven volts so what I'm gonna do is hook
this up allow it to charge the starter
unit itself and then see if it'll
actually have enough juice to get this
engine to turn over now I've
disconnected the coil on the truck just
because I don't want the truck starting
inside the shop but our goal is to see
if this engine will actually spin over
fast enough to start we can look at the
current demand from the truck looking at
this o meter I'm gonna see if this
battery has enough juice in it to get
this engine to turn over and then I'm
gonna hook up the super capacitor the
engine is not turning over at all so
what I do is hook
the super capacitor and allow it to
charge the battery pack
I just hit the on override button and
what it's doing is charging up this unit
it needs to get to about 15 volts before
we can attempt to have the engine spin
over the voltage is down below five now
as the super capacitor is drawing energy
out of the battery and charging okay the
unit indicates that it's ready to start
so I'm Abed and try to start the truck
okay so it actually did a pretty good
job of getting this engine to turn over
but it didn't last very long what test
the I do next I'm gonna push the boost
button
okay the boost button is on so I'm go
ahead see if I can get the engine to
spin over looks like the voltage is
climbing pretty quickly wow that
actually did very well I'm really
impressed with this little power pack
this engine spun over super fast and
this engine would have started had a not
disconnected to coil that little short
run the battery pack is down to 83
percent which is really not that bad and
consider how quickly it made this engine
spin over the previous jumper probably
provided some charge to this battery so
I went ahead and drained it back down to
a very close level as before and that
one do is try out the Harbor Freight
Viking to see how it does okay shows
this charge so I'm gonna see if this
will spin the engine over
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we'll give this one more try up next
we're gonna test the sand rock this
battery is once again drained we're down
to around five and a half volts
like it says wow this thing get a lot
better than the Harbor Freight jumper
did this is really amazing for such a
small charger they could spin an engine
over that fast this end was drained down
to such a low level
very impressive job by the sand rock DB
power is fully charged at four bars
we're gonna see if this is going to do
the job our voltage is over 14 so this
should work well very impressive job by
the DB power definitely got this engine
spinning over fast enough to start and
it actually held up for quite some time
before it finally gave out top visions
at 99 percent so we're gonna see if this
will get the job done
the top vision definitely seems to be
the best so far it really held on for a
long time before giving up these cables
are definitely a little bit hot I think
we put it to the test okay we're down to
about 88% up next I'm going to test the
Naoko boost it's fully charged
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not having much luck with the Naoko I'm
gonna try a different spot the candles
are getting pretty hot all right it's
showing that it should be charging up
the battery we're 11 point 4 volts it's
just not producing enough voltage to get
this engine to spin over which is our
problem all right we're down to about
ten point eight volts all right got a
light on indicating this thing is
overheated the Duracell is at 100% so
let's see how it performs
okay we're about twelve point six three
volts let's see how this does so the
duracell just doesn't produce enough
cranking amps to get this engine to spin
over fast enough we allowed the Duracell
about five minutes to charge this
battery to see if it can get the engine
going it's been right at five minutes of
voltages around twelve point five so
we're gonna see if this engine will spin
over this is a 1975 Ford 5000 diesel
tractor with a 4.2 liter engine I've
disabled the fuel system on this tractor
so I'm gonna do is go ahead and use the
12-volt battery from the tractor get
this engine spinning over and we'll see
how much current it takes to get this
engine to spin over I disconnected the
positive lead on this battery and it's
only connected to the jumper I'm gonna
go on hook up the I do jumper to see if
has enough power to get this engine to
spin over Wow very impressive
so the I do had enough power to spit
over this diesel engine so this is a
pretty legit jumper in my opinion up
next we're to see what the Harbor
Freight Viking can do okay not very good
unfortunately the Harbor Freight Viking
was not going to get the job done up
next is the San Roque
the I do definitely did better than the
Sandrock however both II I do and the
Sandrock did a much better job in the
Harbor Freight the DB parrot and a San
Roque scene pretty much the same
I think the I do actually did a little
bit better than the top vision the GB
forty genius let's see how well it can
do
all right unfortunately the GB 40 just
doesn't have enough power to get the
engine to spin over up next we're gonna
see what the duracell can do a little
bit better than a TV 40 but definitely
not enough to get this tractor started
I'm gonna go ahead and put all those
jumpers back inside the freezer to zero
degrees Fahrenheit and we'll come back
and see if they can still get this
engine to turn over these battery
jumpers around zero degrees Fahrenheit
we're gonna see how they perform
starting with you do show a 90% we'll
see if we can do a little bit better
than that the I do actually did pretty
good concern the unit is right at zero
degrees Fahrenheit I'm gonna try it one
more time all right the last time hey
not bad from the I do the I do actually
improve performance once I use it a
couple times since it warmed up some
okay let's test the Harbor Freight
Viking unfortunately the Viking is not
liking this cold temperature and it
looks like it's got an alarm and is not
going to do the job up next is the sand
rock it still needs to warm up we'll try
this a couple more times we'll do it one
more time
it took a little while for the sin rock
to finally warm up enough but after five
attempts it actually spun the engine
over fast enough to get it started it
took several attempts for the jumpstart
that's by DB power to get the job done
but it actually did spend the engine
over a satisfactory rate in order to get
the engine started testing top vision
pretty good job by the top vision time
to test out 2gb 40 unfortunately the no
code genius is just not going to get the
job done we gave it several attempts
just like the other brands the other
brands actually warmed up enough to get
the engine to spin over so when you
consider the price granted performance
and my opinion the I do won the showdown
it definitely did a tremendous job as
far as starting that tractor as well as
a pickup truck definitely had plenty of
amps to get the engine spinning over as
far as safety is concerned the power
button to the light is on the side of
the jumper and it's unlikely that's
going to get powered on if it's inside
this carrying case the top vision did
almost as good as the I do and came in
second place in my opinion overall it
did a terrific job for the price I'm
pretty sure that the top vision of the
San Roque and the DB power are all made
by the same manufacturer even though
they have different specifications if
you look at the jumper cables they look
the same and these cases on these
jumpers look very close however the san
roque of the DB power didn't seem to be
quite as good as a top vision and I
would say these two brands tied for
third I think the no Co genius GV 40 is
a very high quality product I do have a
couple of critiques with it though first
off for the price it doesn't compete
with the competition as far as producing
amps this product is definitely
underpowered for the price range of
around
dollars the other units we tested were
less and actually did a lot better if
the jumpstarter is inside this little
bag this bag is placed in a trunk and
someone just throw something in the
trunk
it could easily power up the device for
the price there should be something a
little bit more substantial than this
little bag the Harbor Freight Viking is
just way overpriced the competition did
far better and this unit just did not
seem to do very well as far as actually
jump-starting the pickup truck or the
tractor compared the competition the
supercapacitor technology that's in the
ottawa is very fascinating but this is a
hundred and thirty dollars this thing is
huge this thing takes several minutes to
do its job while a much smaller
lithium-ion unit is gonna cost a lot
less and immediately deliver results for
that reason I personally would not buy
the Ottawa I have to admit I definitely
underestimated the potential that these
lithium-ion batteries have the I do and
the top vision simply impressed with the
ability to spend that tractor engine
over in a pretty high rate fast enough
to get it started without any assistance
from the tractors battery I'm definitely
going to have one of these lithium-ion
batteries in each of my vehicles in the
future just in case they're needed all
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