What mah rating is the Gooloo rated at? Didn’t notice what it was on the Amazon discription. I could have overlooked it I guess.
Edit- It’s 15000 mah. Just looked on their website. There isn’t a 1500a model but it looks like their gp1500 which is supposed to be a new release. Not sure if they are different. Specs look the same or close. I grabbed one just because they seem to get good reviews and “really” work.
It is the GP1500 model. 1500A is just a peak current rating.
By the way, does anyone know if the connector pictured below (in blue) is the industry standard EC-5 type? I wanted to pick up a cigarette lighter adapter for it. It looks like EC-5 to me, but some people said otherwise.
These devices generally work to augment a battery that just doesnt have enough umph to start by itself. In some cases, you even need to sit these on the battery for a while to transfer some charge so they can help. I would think you would need a pretty small engine (tractor/etc) to start it solo without a battery. While I can’t say from experience, I would think starting a car would be difficult to impossible solo. YMMV
Plus, you need a Pb-acid battery to essentially regulate the system voltage that the car sees. A different chemistry battery can have too high a voltage andd fry the electronics, and running off the alternator alone is generally a Bad Idea.
Exactly. The one I linked has a SLA high-drain battery. It’s a whole lot heavier that the lithium units. Like everything, it all depends on how you plan to use it.
Maybe not the greatest, but will certainly work in emergency.
What I’d really like to know is if this GooLoo could jump start the 6.4 V8 engine in my car, but short of severely discharging the battery in the car (which I don’t want to do), I don’t know how I could test that.
When the car’s battery died last year (I think it had a bad cell), I could not get the car jump started by hooking up jumper cables to my other car. Finally a guy with a flatbed showed up, and he had a jump starter similar to that Clore one linked above. It started the engine right up.
You could disconnect both battery cable, and connect jumper starter directly to car, think you may have to push boost button if it has one, some starters wont work unless there is some power in the flattened battery.