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 2 200 amps 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 promise today we're going to be testing eight different brands to see which brand is the best in the first test we'll measure the cranking amps produced by the portable jump starters at 75 degrees fahrenheit we'll compare the lithium jump starters with two other types of jump starters including a super capacitor and sealed lead acid we'll 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 jump start a vehicle that has a dead battery we'll see if any of these jump starters can start a diesel tractor without any help from the tractor's battery costing 70.99 is this ado 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 [Music] usb type c to 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 tester in addition to the carbon pile tester 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 we'll measure the current being produced by each one of these units okay i just selected the boost button which should give us some voltage the voltage on the i do is 16.43 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 304 amps and around 10 volts dropping to 200 amps after four seconds before the tester shut off that's actually pretty impressive and more than adequate to start most vehicles that have a partially drained battery the i do start off at 100 it's now down to 84 after the test costing 74.99 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 pick 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 12 000 milliamp hour capacity the instructions use this device are right 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 and power up the power pack it's fully charged the harbor freight viking started out at 13.22 volts before the test and only produced 216 amps at 7.7 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 going to come back later and see if we can get this unit to power up costing 84.99 is this sand rock jump starter it claims to deliver 2 000 cranking amps and has a 16 000 milliamp hour capacity jump start a car up to 20 times per charge charges any usb device like mobile phones tablet digital camera etc pretty nice looking carrying bag [Music] he claims to have a starting voltage of a thousand amps and peak current 2000 amps for his accessories it only has one cable for usb to usb type c and the jumper cables the sandrock started out at 16.83 volts before the test and topped out around 344 amps at 10 volts costing 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 one thousand amps working temperature negative four degrees fahrenheit to 140 degrees fahrenheit [Music] in and out usb type-c port two different usb ports and a flashlight usb 2.0 to usb type-c and the jumper cables the db power start out at 16.53 volts it didn't do quite as well as the ado or the sand rock but much better than the viking and produced 291 amps at around 10 volts and lasted around 6 seconds costing 89.99 is this top vision jumpstarter which claims to have 2 200 cranking amps and a capacity of 21 800 milliamp hours usb 2.0 to usb type c jumper cables two usb outputs flashlight the top vision started out at 16.76 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 99.69 this no-code genius boost plus gb40 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 6-liter gasoline engine or a three liter diesel even though the genius costs more it only produces six thousand four hundred milliamp hours compared to the competition which costs less and produces around twenty thousand milliamp hours usb out usbn jumper cable port instead of a carrying case there's a carrying bag jumper cables the setup of the noko seems a little bit different than the competition the noco actually includes the safety features inside the battery pack not on the actual battery cables itself power cable auxiliary power to usb which is used to charge the device gp40 user's guide the noko gb40 started out at 11.93 volts and produced 243 amps at 7 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 auxiliary power supply usb power supply rotate to provide power to the cables the duracell started out at 13.72 volts it produced 255 amps at 7.4 volts which is better than the noco gb40 and the harbor freight viking but not nearly as good as some of the other products we're testing costing 129.99 is this autowit 12 volt battery list car jump starter ultra safe convenient fast long lifespan multi-application reliable and portable peak current is 700 amps working storage temperature minus 40 degrees celsius to 60 degrees celsius battery charging time depends on the amount of voltage you have in your battery the auto it uses energy from your drain battery to charge itself and then start your car the autowit will work using a battery that's nearly drained if your battery is over 10 volts it takes between one and one and a half minutes to charge the auto it and then to start your car if the voltage is over 6 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 autowit doesn't have a carrying case so you'll have to use this box the autowit supercapacitor started out at around 15.5 volts it produced 261 amps at around 8 volts but quickly dropped to under 200 volts and 7 amps jump starter performance on the bench is a combination of amps and volts the sandrock top vision ado and db power all seem very close with audio producing slightly higher voltage under load the autowit duracell noko gb40 and harbor freight really struggled compared to the competition by producing under 270 amps and 8 volts or less car battery issues really seem to surface when the temperature drops below freezing so let's place these jumper packs in a freezer that's 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 audu really struggled to do its job only producing 197 amps and 7 volts for about 2 seconds during the second attempt it did a lot better at 238 amps and 7.3 volts the third attempt produced 284 amps at over eight volts so the lithium batteries do improve a lot as they warm up from being used the viking only produced 113 amps at 3.6 volts what was that all right the harbor freight device won't even power up after one attempt so unfortunately i think the harbor freight device is done for now the sand rock just like the ottawa needed three attempts to warm up a little and on the third attempt produced 205 amps and 7 volts which isn't nearly as good as the ado the db power also needed three attempts and it produced 188 amps and 7 volts on the third attempt so not nearly as good as the audio jump starter the top vision also benefited from three attempts with a third attempt producing 254 amps and eight volts which is just behind the i do as far as performance the noco genius gb40 only produced 145 amps and 4 volts which is slightly better than the harbor freight viking but not nearly as good as the competition the duracell started out at 13.32 volts the duracell produced 190 amps and 5.34 volts on the first attempt and it didn't give up like the lithium-ion jump starters i ended the test after around 10 seconds after allowing each of the batteries multiple attempts they warmed up and performance improved i do seem to come out on top with the top vision in a close second and the sand rock doing fairly well also the nocoboost gb40 and harbor freight viking really struggled producing less than 150 amps and around 4 volts let's see if the bench testing results translate into real world capability on an old ford ranger pickup truck that has a drain battery the ranger has a 2.9 liter v6 up next we're going to test the super capacitor it has about 3.45 volts in it and this battery is extremely drained a little over 7 volts so what we're going to 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 ohmmeter 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 i'm gonna do is hook up 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 this super capacitor is drawing energy out of the battery and charging okay the unit indicates that it's ready to start so i'm going to try to start the truck [Music] okay so it actually did a pretty good job of getting this engine to turn over but it didn't last very long i'm going to test the i do next so i'm going to push the boost button okay the boost button is on so i'm going to 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 i not disconnected the coil that little short run the battery pack is down to 83 percent which is really not that bad when you 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 biking to see how it does okay it shows this charge so i'm gonna see if this will spin the engine over [Music] we'll give this one more try up next we're going to test the sand rock this battery is once again drained we're down to around five and a half volts all i can say is wow this thing did 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 engine was drained down to such a low level very impressive job by the sandrock db power is fully charged at four bars we're going to 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 vision's at 99 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 percent up next we're going to test the noco boost it's fully charged [Music] not having much luck with the no co i'm gonna try a different spot the cable's getting pretty hot all right it's showing that it should be charging up the battery we're at 11.4 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 10.8 volts all right we've 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 12.63 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 allow 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 the voltage is around 12.5 so we're going to 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 ahead and hook up the ado jumper to see if it has enough power to get this engine to spin over wow very impressive so the i do have enough power to spin over this diesel engine so this is a pretty legit jumper in my opinion up next we're gonna 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 sand rock the ado definitely did better than the sand rock however both the ado and the sand rock did a much better job than the harbor freight the db power and the sand rocks seem pretty much the same i think fiat dude actually did a little bit better than the top vision the gb40 genius let's see how well it can do all right unfortunately the gb40 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 the gb40 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 the ado showing ninety percent let's see if we can do a little bit better than that yeah i do actually did pretty good considering 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 sand 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 jump start that's by db power to get the job done but it actually did spin 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 the gb40 unfortunately the noco 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 standard performance in 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 it'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 the sand rock 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 sand rock and 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 noco genius gb40 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 a hundred dollars the other units we tested were less and actually did a lot better if the jump starter is inside this little bag this bag is placed in a trunk and someone just throws 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 to the competition the super capacitor technology that's in the ottawa is very fascinating but this is 130 this thing is huge this thing takes several minutes to do its job while a much smaller lithium ion unit is going to cost a lot less and immediately deliver results for that reason i personally would not buy the autowit i have to admit i definitely underestimated the potential that these lithium-ion batteries have the i do in the top vision simply impressed with the ability to spin that tractor engine over a pretty high rate fast enough to get it started without any assistance from the tractor's 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 my video ideas including this one come from viewers and i read and reply to as many comments as possible so if you have a video idea i hope you'll take time to leave a comment as usual just want to say thanks so much for watching the video please take care and look forward to next time

Channel: Project Farm

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Keywords: project farm, supercapacitor, supercapacitor battery, jumpstart a car, how to jump start a dead car battery, jump start, jump starting a car battery, battery jump starter, battery jumper, car diy, car battery jump starter, supercap, jump starter, jump starting, car jump starter, jump starter reviews, the best car jump starter in the world and why, the best car, autowit, audew jump starter, noco boost gb 40, harbor freight viking, sanrock, top vision, db power, duracell

Id: JN8A2nIMUWA

Length: 21min 31sec (1291 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 11 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/failureinflesh]

The NOCO is 4+ stars on Amazon with over 5,000 reviews, 2 out of the top 3 helpful reviews are 1/5 stars. Maybe NOCO at an early stage was a reliable jumper and probably changed manufacturer and took a nose dive.

Audew is also 4+ stars on Amazon with over 500 reviews, but all top 5 helpful reviews are 5/5.

Videos seems to prove those reviews and have influenced my take on these small battery jumpers also.

[u/makuzzle]

TL;DR: Replace the included "smart" starter cable, with one without the little electronics box - less likely to fail. Made bad experiences.

My personal 2 cents:

I have one with a "smart" electronics box inside the positive red wire, that checks for proper connectivity, reverse polarity, correct voltage (no power for 6V or 24V batteries) etc and only enables power once everything is properly connected.

Some times when I wanted to use the box on cars with really depleted batteries this lead to a problem - the battery being so low, the box did not register it was properly connected to a 12V battery. Although it was fully charged, it did not supply any power to start the car. Eventually when it did, it decided to show an error 0.5s after turning the key in the ignition (very loud beeps included, which the people in my apartment complex totally loved), forcing me to get out the drivers seat, re connect the setup, try again, repeat numerous times. In the end i was always able to start the car, but it took around 10-20 attempts and some times up to 30mins.

I want to highlight that nothing was "wrong" or defective, in fact the electronics box was exactly doing what it was designed to do - however that design did not suit the situation at hand.

I've since replaced the cable with a spare one from amazon that doesn't have any electronics at all, since I consider myself experienced enough to properly connect the battery pack to a car. I don't want to bother with this kind of shit in a situation where I depend on the starter box. Another advantage is, the spare cable from amazon is ~5 inches longer, allowing the battery box to be put in a safer place in the engine bay.

[u/bloodpets]

Why is he yelling the whole video through?

[u/DarxusC]

Why can't anybody make one of these designed to be left plugged in in your vehicle all the time?

[u/kwizzle]

Go to 8:10 for results at 75 deg F

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Overall the Audew seems best.

[u/ocabj]

I have a Noco GB70 in my Jeep. Actually used it twice. Works great.

[u/chap1stick]

Don’t forget to check out the dewalt jumpstarter and tire inflator, I have it and jumped my car about 2-3 times in -20f

[u/rockchurchnavigator]

I've been waiting for his video on these for so long now. A few months ago I purchased the NOCO GP40 based on some suggestions here. Mine has done well enough the two times I've used it. His unit was struggling. Looks like there might be some better choices.

[u/[deleted]]

Come back in a year and see that literally all of them are useless now