Best Car Jump Starter? NOCO GB70 vs Antigravity, Schumacher, Gooloo, Tacklife. Let's find out!

since testing jumpstarters a year ago i've heard dozens of stories from people about how a jump starter saved them from being stranded including one person who was in the middle of a lake and their boat battery died today we'll be testing nine different brands some of these claiming to deliver up to four thousand cranking amps that's four times as much power as your car battery so let's get the testing underway and see which brand is the best and the first test we'll hook up each jump starter to a tester and we'll see if they actually produce the advertised cranking amps then we'll see if they can jump start a small vehicle with a dead battery we'll also see if they can jump start a diesel tractor finally we'll see which one has the best capacity when used as a power bank at a price of 79.99 is this gulu gp 2000 jump starter 19 800 milliamp hours or 73 watt hours peak current 2 000 amps starting current 500 amps it comes with a pretty nice carrying bag instruction manual jumper cables usb charger usb-c type-c in and out 5-volt 2.1 amp power bank 5-volt 9-volt volt power bank flashlight output 15 volts 10 amps the gulu is made in china let's go ahead and bench test each of the jump starters using this carbon pile tester which gives us both the volts as well as the amperage well the clamp meter hooked up as well so we can get a digital readout of the amps we'll be using a car battery to serve as our baseline this is an optima 1000 cranking amp battery so we're going to give it a test to see what kind of volts as well as amp production we get additionally we'll be watching the clamp meter since the jump starters are designed to give a short powerful boost i won't be running the standard 15 second battery test but instead testing for peak amps and volts we just placed 1000 amp load on the battery and there's a lot going on all at once so let's take a closer look at each of the meters in the lower left corner of the screen you can see that the digital clamp meter is reading 995 amps in the top left corner the needle is hovering right around a thousand so both the digital meter and the carbon pile tester are very close to the same in the top right corner is the voltmeter and you can see that the voltage dropped to 6.8 let's test the gulu next connect the smart cable plug into the jump starter connect the red clamp to the positive battery terminal black clamp to the negative battery terminal once the jump indicator light turns green you can start the vehicle once the current started flowing the test lasted right at three seconds before the device powered itself off for safety reasons the gulu peaked at 7.2 volts at 490 amps also at a price of 79.99 is this amazing im29 jump starter and power bank 2500 amp 74 watt hours start amps 1000 peak amps 2000 to 2500. the imazing jump starter is made in china very nice looking carrying bag instruction manual jumper cables usb to usbc adapter output 1 output 2 flashlight dc adapter the imazing is fully charged connect the starter cable with the battery clamps to the jump starter with the blue connector the led display on the cable begins to show red dots that circulate around the display the starter station is ready connect the red clamp to the positive pole and the black clamp to the negative terminal of the battery even though the imazing is rated for 2 500 p amps 500 more than the gulu it didn't do quite as well it peaked at 486 amps and also was slightly lower at 5.6 volts after about three seconds it powered itself off just like the gulu so gulu holds on to the lead at 84.99 the viking compact power pack jump starter is the third least expensive product we'll be testing and it's sold at harbor freight the jump starter i bought at harbor freight a year ago didn't perform so well so i bought another one to give it another chance 12 000 milliamp hours starting current 221 amps peak current 450 amps lithium iron phosphate batteries hold 70 percent charge after two years five times more cycle life and four times more cranks than lead acid battery jumpers the viking is made in china charger jumper cables several different adapters jump starter flashlight 12 volts 6 amps out 5 volts 2 amps out 12 to 15 volts in it's really nice that the harbor freight viking includes instructions on the side of the unit the viking is fully charged connect red positive clamp to positive battery terminal then connect black negative clamp to chassis press and hold the starter button until green light comes on indicating unit is ready to jump start vehicle the warrior only lasted about two seconds and very briefly made it to 410 amps and about 5.8 volts but that's not nearly as good as the gulu and the imazing jump starters after testing the viking it won't even power up so i'm have to let this cool down and see if we can get it going again at 89.99 the tacklife model kp200 jumpstarter is the fourth least expensive brand we'll be testing the tack life comes with a pretty nice looking carrying case instruction manual quick charger several different adapters jumper cables 12 volt adapter 3 out of 4 bars led light 2 usb outs 15 volt 10 amp out made in china 16 800 milliamp hours or 62.2 watt hours starting current 500 amps peak current 2000 amps plug the blue end of the jumper cable into the corresponding interface on the unit and make sure the safety indicator is off the tack life did the best yet at 511 amps at five volts and lasted almost four seconds before it powered itself off at 134.99 is this microstart xp1 450 peak amps 12 000 milliamps jump starts up to v8 motors and diesel motors up to four liter the microstart xp1 is made by anti-gravity batteries nice looking carrying case charger 12-volt adapter jump starter cables led flashlight input 15 volts 1 amp output 12 volts 10 amps output 19 volts 3 amps output 5 volts 2 amps output 5 volts and 9 volts there's no information on where this product is made connect the smart clamps to the battery the vehicle red clamp to positive terminal and black clamp to negative terminal the compact 135 xp1 wasn't up to competing with the far less expensive larger units it only produced 379 amps at 4.4 volts before powering itself off after three seconds [Music] at 149.99 is this ottawitt jump starter unlike the other brands the autoit uses a supercapacitor technology we tested the autowit last year but this year we're using their new and improved version peak capacity 800 amps the supercapacitor charges itself by using a nearly drained battery if the car battery voltage is approximately 12 volts it'll take less than three minutes if the input voltage from the battery is six volts it'll take less than 20. if the input voltage is less than five volts it'll take less than 30. the auto it comes with a pretty nice looking carrying bag jumper cables adapter user manual the auto it is definitely the biggest and the heaviest yet the autowit is made in china attach boost clamps to your vehicle's corresponding battery terminals when the buzzer sounds for half a second the charging automatically begins and the sounds again when fully charged press the power jump start button the jumpstarter will begin discharging countdown for 10 seconds get into the vehicle in 10 seconds and get ready to jump start when the countdown hits zero the buzzer sounds continuously start the engine the autowit discharge very quickly only lasting about 2 seconds and only producing 372 amps at about 3 volts we'll also be testing a second gulu jump starter this one has 4 000 cranking amps it costs 169.99 26 800 milliamp hours or 99.2 watt hours starting current 800 amps for three seconds peak current 4 000 amps made in china the jumper cables are definitely a lot heavier duty charger a couple of adapters wow this thing is definitely a lot heavier than the other brands make sure the jump starter is at least 60 charged the gulu gp 4000 packed a powerful punch at 619 amps at 7.6 volts which is by far the best yet the gulu lasted about three seconds before powering itself off in the previous video we tested the noko gb40 and it was a bit undersized compared to the competition so we'll be testing the noko gb70 at 199.99 the noko gb70 is a lot more expensive than a noko gb40 12 volt 2 000 amps safely jump start dead batteries on most gasoline vehicles up to 8 liters or 6 liter diesel for 200 it seems like the storage bag would be a little higher quality instruction manual the gb70 is made in malaysia clamp output 12 volts or approximately 2 000 amps 56 watt hour lithium ion the jb70 definitely has a very bright light the gb70 doesn't include a battery charger so you'll have to use another usb charger that you have or the 12 volt battery from your car the gb70 is fully charged unlike the other brands that only provided two to three seconds of boost the noku gb 70 provided 13 seconds of boost before it gave up at 588 amps it didn't hit quite as hard as the gulu gp 4000 but it definitely outlasted it at 221 dollars the most expensive jump starter we'll be testing is made by schumacher it's the dsr pro series heavy duty lithium jump starter plus usb ports 2000 peak amps 650 cranking amps user instructions a couple of adapters battery charger user instructions are in the back of the unit usb capacity 24 000 milliamp hours the schumacher jump starter contains dual lithium iron phosphate batteries the schumacher is made in china the schumacher performed nearly the same as the noco producing slightly less current at 559 amps but slightly higher voltage than inoco at seven so the gulu gp 4000 delivered the most amps at 619 but the noku came in a close second at 588 schumacher 559 tacklife 511 and gulu 490 imagine you actually left your lights on you come back to your vehicle and the battery is drained well that's exactly the scenario we're about to test using each one of these jump starters beginning with the gulu the voltage is so low the lights will not even come on now the vehicle is definitely not going to start i went ahead and disconnected the coil so the engine will spin over but we do not want it to start a very impressive job by the gulu it really spun the engine over very fast if the coil was connected this engine would have definitely started the google is still at 4 bar so we can still jump start several more vehicles recharge the imazing and it's at 100 wow the imazing seems to have done even better it allowed the engine to continue to cycle for a lot more than about three seconds in fact i ran this engine for probably seven or eight seconds before it finally gave up the imazing is down to 86 percent viking is fully charged [Music] unfortunately i'm not having luck with the viking this time the tack life is fully charged [Applause] wow very impressive job by the tack life the vehicle definitely would have started with the coil wire connected down to three bars with the tack life all right the microstart xp1 is a small jump starter and it doesn't have a lot of cranking gas but let's see if it can get the engine to spin over quickly anyway obviously the other brands caused the engine to spill over a lot faster but it still did a very respectful job for such a compact unit this battery is so close to dead it take about an hour to charge the auto it so i'm using another battery which is fully charged once it's fully charged i'll go ahead and activate the auto it and it'll begin the countdown now once it says it's discharging i could then swap terminals over to our battery that's dead and we'll see if the truck will start very nice the ottawa actually did a lot better this year than last year the ottawa has definitely seen some improvements the autowit is down to 45 so we'd have to fully charge this one more time in order to get it to work this is the 4000 peak amp jump starter so it's going to be very interesting to see how it performs very impressive i think the engine was spinning at least 500 rpm definitely spun the engine over a lot faster than the other brands unfortunately the gb40 didn't do very well last year trying to start this truck this is the gb70 has a lot more amperage so let's see how it performs wow the noco spun the engine over by far the longest of all the brands very impressive job by the noco the noko is down to two bars but then again the noko spun the engine over for a really long time battery at 100 percent right now it's going through a cool down phase very impressive job by the schumacher really spinning this engine over the fort ranger has a small 2.9 liter gasoline engine but what about a diesel engine this old ford 5000 tractor has a 4.2 liter diesel engine and has compression about 300 psi so it's gonna put each one of these jump starters to the test i took the battery out of the ford ranger and we'll be using the exact same battery in this tractor all the jump starters are fully charged we'll start off with the gulu gp2000 wow very impressive job by the gulu the imazing is fully charged very impressive job by the imazing had no problem getting this engine to spin over testing the viking testing the tack life very impressive job by the tack life and had no problem spinning over this diesel engine okay this is a pretty big task for a small jump starter but we'll see what the microstarter can do okay spun the diesel engine over but definitely not nearly as fast as most of the other brands okay the ottawa got this engine to spend over just a little bit but definitely not enough to get it started tested the gulu 4 000. wow very impressive i'm really surprised at just how fast this spun the engine over it seems to work just as good as a thousand amp battery testing the noko gb70 wow very impressive job by the noco it doesn't spin the engine over as fast but it just doesn't give up it just keeps going and going this is definitely the right charge if you have a vehicle that takes a long time to get going this funny engine over just as fast as the noko gb70 and it seemed to go just about as long when your car doesn't want to start it's very unlikely that it's going to be sunny in 75 it's gonna be more like zero degrees fahrenheit outside i'm gonna set the freezer up for zero degrees fahrenheit and we're gonna keep the batteries inside the freezer overnight and we'll come back and test them tomorrow okay the gulu is very cold at about four degrees fahrenheit so let's go ahead and test it and see how it performs let's give it another chance okay legula did very well but it had to warm up so if you're using one of these lithium jump starters it's very important to warm these things up and then they'll actually do their job unfortunately the imazing doesn't like the cold and it's just not going to work so i'm going to let it warm up a little bit more and we'll come back to it later the imazing is really warmed up so i'm going to give it one more try it did get the engine spinning over fairly fast and it probably would have started four bars with the viking vikings had about 10 minutes to warm up we'll see if it could do any better when i hit the jump start button nothing is happening something's wrong with the viking okay we got a warning light unfortunately the viking is just not cooperating testing tack life the tack life needed a few minutes to warm up okay the tack life did a really good job once i allowed it to warm up a little bit okay we finally overheated the xp1 it actually did a decent job once it warmed up started to get the engine to spin over not very fast it may have started the tracker but probably not i'm going to use a fully charged battery because as you can see this one's only at 5 volts and this will take at least 30 minutes okay unfortunately just doesn't have enough power to get this engine spinning over wow definitely fast enough to start the tractor um it took a second for the noco to warm up but once it did it did a great job the schumacher's had plenty of attempts and it's just not going to get the job done most of these products can be used as power packs and that's exactly what we're going to test next each one of them have an advertised milliamp error rating so what we're going to do is apply a 6 amp load and we'll watch this meter to see how many amp hours and what hours are produced the gulu is rated for 73 watt hours or about 19 800 milliamp hours and fairness to all the brands i tested them all at six amp hours which is well within their design capability however they probably received their one hour rating from the manufacturer based upon a very small discharge rate of one amp or less okay the gulu's advertised for 73.3 watt hours but only delivered 45.9 the imazing is 100 charged 53.8 for the i amazing which is definitely a lot better than the gulu but still very short of the 74 watt hours it's supposed to deliver the viking is fully charged okay the viking gave up at 27 watt hours which is very far short of its 44.4 watt hour rating also the two less expensive brands the imazing as well as the gulu did quite a bit better at well over 40. attack life is fully charged and is rated for 16 800 milliamp hours 48 watt hours for tack life which is in second place behind gulu the anti-gravity is fully charged 27.2 watt hours for the xp-1 just barely ahead of the harbor freight viking the gulu gp-4000 is fully charged and the gulu gave up a 67.1 which is by far the best of all the brands tested yet kenoko was fully charged the noko gave up at 43.4 definitely not as good as some of the other brands the schumacher is fully charged 55.2 watt hours for the schumacher which is second place just behind the gulu 4000 so if you need a jump starter that'll double as a portable power bank the gulu gp 4000 came out on top at 67.1 watt hours schumacher 55.2 imazing 53.6 taclife 48 and gulu gp 2000 45.9 if you're looking for a jumpstart that has enough current to get that vehicle going when the battery's dead i'm very impressed with both the imazing as well as the gp2000 made by gulo both of those did a really good job especially when you consider the price i would definitely buy either of those depending on which one is less expensive regarding the noko gb70 it did an amazing job the gulu gp 4000 is very impressive and packs a very powerful punch as well as a very impressive battery bank all the videos in this channel are viewers suggested including this one so if you have a video idea i hope you'll take time to leave a comment thanks so much for watching please take care and look forward to next time

Channel: Project Farm

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Keywords: Seafoam, project farm, Jump starter review, jump starter comparison, Jump starter, best jump starter, car jump starter, battery jump starter, NOCO GB70, NOCO, Antigravity jump starter, antigravity, anti-gravity jump starter, Schumacher jump starter, tacklife jump starter, autowit supercapacitor, imazing jump starter, antigravity xp-1, xp1, harbor freight, harbor freight Viking jump starter, Viking jump starter review, noco car jump starter review, best car jump starter

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Length: 20min 41sec (1241 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 15 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/TESTICLE_KEBABS]

I made the mistake of buying a jump pack at Costco before reading the specs.

It's only rated at 800A peak and 10,000mAh. Makes a fantastic power bank though.

[u/ToastyMozart]

Top performers: Gooloo2000 and Imazing for regular use, Gooloo4000 and GB70 for heavy duty.

Just stay away from Harbor Freight.

[u/Slimy_Shart_Socket]

We use one at work, a cheapo one. The issue is they are only good for about 3 years before the batteries are toast. Even if you don't use it.

[u/xkegsx]

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