rev up your engines, today I'm going to show you the future jump-starting where you can
actually use your old bad battery to jumpstart itself, and yeah it sounds like
an insane idea, but with the use of super capacitors or super caps, that's now
possible, now to understand super capacitors, you need a little history
lesson, 1957 GE pioneered the first low-voltage super capacitor, now super
capacitors are fascinating, because they can store up to a hundred times more
energy than a regular battery can, they can recharge super fast, in the case
of this one, sometimes it only takes two to three minutes to fully charge the
unit, and modern super capacitors, hey they can charge and recharge do that
cycle hundreds of thousands of times, before they wear out, but presently super
caps have one big drawback, they can't store the electricity for a very long
period of time, so today super caps are used in a lot of industrial applications
like regenerative electricity, so they can regenerate the power and then use it
up a short period of time later, because it's not being stored for very long
Cadillacs using it in one of their late-model cars, for that stop-start
system, when it stops the energy goes into a super cap, and then it can start
back up when it's time to go again when the light turns green, now you might
think, oh let's have super cap batteries for cars, well in this case here's one
that's used in commercial engines, one it costs a thousand forty nine dollars and
as you see it's called a start module battery, so they can be great for
boosting sound in your car, only in our case here we're going to use it to boost
start your car when your old battery won't start it, now my car won't start
because I deliberately put an old bad battery in it, which we're going to test, as
you can see we're running the test here, here it goes it's doing a test, and the
test says replace battery, that it's just wearing out, it's got very little health
left, but with this worn out battery, we're
going to use the super cap, and believe it or not, this battery is going to
jumpstart itself, watch, we just get the super cap unit and we
hook it up to the car's battery, and the light shows green it's hooked up right
then we just push on, flashing red means that it's charging the super cap, and you
see on the super cap the voltage is going up, and in less than a minute it's
gone from red to yellow, when it gets green it will actually jumpstart the car
the power that's left in the battery can easily charge the super cap to give
enough voltage to crank the engine over and start it, now the super cap itself the
small one, it can't crank the engine for real long periods of time, but this fast
charge that it got, can put all its power out really quick, let the engine crank and
start up and run, let's try it out, well in this case it took less than three
minutes to get both lights green, so let's go inside and see what happens
let's see if it'll make a liar out of me or not, turn the key, you want the idiot
lights to come on, wait a second where everything charges up, then turn it, well
it starts right up, it's amazing what modern technology can do, I only have one
bad thing to say about the product though, the chart that they gave here was good
if the voltage in your old battery was greater than 10 volts, one to one and a
half minutes to charge it, greater than six it takes three minutes and greater
than four takes ten minutes to recharge a battery, now I tried that out and that
was all true, I used different batteries that I drained out further, but they said
that you could use it on diesel engines and they're pushing it a little bit too
far saying you can use it on diesel engines, because I found with diesel
engines, if you got a cold diesel engine, you got to turn the engine on, then those
global plugs have to glow red-hot, that takes a lot of electricity and
unfortunately that tended to drain too much electricity from the super cap
then it couldn't crank the engine, and of course diesel engines have higher
compression, so not only do they have to heat up the glow plugs, but then they
have to turn an engine that's harder to turn, so I would really only advise this
for gasoline engines, diesel engines you're going to need an actual giant
battery to boost them, but for gasoline engines this thing amazed me, and the
cool thing is, there's no batteries in this, this is all solid state, so this
thing could sit in your trunk, you don't have to worry about it like a regular
booster pack where if you don't recharge it every so often
then when you go to start your car it doesn't have enough power, this thing has
no power in it now, it's using residual power and your bad battery to charge it
up and then away you go, so it works great with weak batteries and gasoline
engine cars, but let's say you really made a mistake and left the headlights on
and you get up in the morning and it's got no power at all
well, this unit has a cigarette lighter adapter, so all you need is
another car, somebody let you borrow a car for a second, and you can recharge
the unit with a cigarette lighter, I tried this in numerous different cars
and it averaged anywhere between a minute and three minutes for it to
recharge the unit, so you're not talking much time, and a lot of people are going to
say, if you want to jumpstart from their car, they say I don't want you jumpstart
with my car, it can ruin modern electronics, which it can do, they're not
going to care if you're just going to plug the unit into their cigarette lighter and
charge it up for a minute and a half or three minutes, and the unit itself it's
pretty much foolproof, I've seen so many people in the past hook the battery cables
up backwards and fry a car, if you do it on this thing, the light just doesn't go
green it's red and then you know, oh jeez I put it on backwards, then you put it the
other way, the light turns green and then you can use it to start the car,
you're not going to damage anything using this and since it's a super cap and it
can cycle for hundreds of thousands of times of dead to full, dead to full, I
don't think you're going to have to jumpstart your car hundreds of thousands
of times, Hey this thing could last you a lifetime or
even more, and since this is mechanic Monday, I'm giving away one of these Auto
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