Excellent small jump start gadget. (1 Viewer)

[ambulancekidd]

Our moho had been sitting unloved & unused since the beginning of november. A situation that most of our fraternity find themselves in from time to time. Consequently the battery was flat (even though it was a brand new genuine Mercedes battery fitted last year) & required charging or jump starting. Now being of a lazy disposition I decided jump starting was the way to go. In the meantime I'd been browsing on Ebay & came up with a little gadget called a Noco Genius Boost. Could this tiny little box of tricks really jump start a cold idle diesel engine? The blurb states that this gadget will start an engine of up to 6 litres. It holds charge for months & can happily fit into the glove box of your moho, it can also do an emergency charge of most mobile phones when used with a USB lead. This all seemed like a tall order, but I ordered one & it was here the following day. Result, instant success! If this gadget has been tried & tested before, I do apologise but I was so impressed by it that I thought I'd share my experiences on this forum.

 

[irnbru]

The local car boot sale was selling a chinese version. I nearly bought one then thought better of it.

 

[Langtoftlad]

Errrm - not recommended for diesel, according to the manufacturer's website .

https://no.co/gb20
Gas Engine Rating
4.0 Liters
Diesel Engine Rating
Not Recommended

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[peterc10]

The problem is that if you let your battery get flat too often you will ruin it. Better to prevent it going flat in the first place.

 

[RogerThat]

I'm AMAZED that worked

Not only from a compression point of view (diesel being much higher than petrol) but purely for the size of it, the gadget looks tiny?!

Interesting

 

[ambulancekidd]

Errrm - not recommended for diesel, according to the manufacturer's website .

https://no.co/gb20
Gas Engine Rating
4.0 Liters
Diesel Engine Rating
Not Recommended

I stand corrected, the one that I bought is a GB40 and the advert says as follows.....
Designed for use with gas engines up to 6 liters and diesel engines up to 3 liters and doubles as a portable power source for recharging smartphones, tablets and more.

Still a cool piece of kit.

I don't normally get the battery get run down, but been off my feet with a knee injury, so had only been using the car as the car is an auto. I couldn't even get into the Sprinter, just knocked her out of gear & spun her over, instant start.

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[Easyliving]

I bought a similar gizmo from Amazon a while ago for £38.99. I have used it to start my car a few times and it has done the necessary with the motorhome too. I had to call out the AA to start the van a few weeks ago, the AA man said they are trialling similar gadgets at the moment then they will be on their vans.

Paul

 

[Tootles]

The local car boot sale was selling a chinese version. I nearly bought one then thought better of it.

Is that the one you plug into the nearest lamp post? The traveling community use a lot of those. Lamp posts, that is.

 

[Langtoftlad]

I stand corrected, the one that I bought is a GB40 and the advert says as follows.....
Designed for use with gas engines up to 6 liters and diesel engines up to 3 liters and doubles as a portable power source for recharging smartphones, tablets and more.

Still a cool piece of kit

Yup, reading the bumpf, GB40 is apparently the one... glad that's what you actually got.
Always useful to know these gadgets work as advertised.

Did you get a good price on eBay?
A quick search "NoCo GB40" suggests £100+ and Amazon just under £100

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[ambulancekidd]

Yup, reading the bumpf, GB40 is apparently the one... glad that's what you actually got.
Always useful to know these gadgets work as advertised.

Did you get a good price on eBay?
A quick search "NoCo GB40" suggests £100+ and Amazon just under £100

We paid around 80 quid for it with free delivery & it really was here by the following morning.

 

[andy63]

I'd say they are a compact bit of kit and as long as the engine fires up quickly great.. but they can't sustain prolonged cranking..
The ah figure will determine how much time you have if you know what the approx cranking current is for your engine... not the max cranking amps available from the unit but it's ah capacity..
Andy.

Andy.

 

[RogerThat]

I'd say they are a compact bit of kit and as long as the engine fires up quickly great.. but they can't sustain prolonged cranking.

That's what I was thinking. Reckon it'd crank for 30 seconds?

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[andy63]

That's what I was thinking. Reckon it'd crank for 30 seconds?

If you were drawing say 300A then cranking for 1 min would be 5ah.. so depending on the ah rating of the boosters you may gey a few min out of them... and they would most probably give up before been completely flat..
I've not got or used one but it seems they can be effective as long as you start easily.. as was mentioned a diesel will draw more current when cranking..
Andy..

 

[TheCaller]

That's what I was thinking. Reckon it'd crank for 30 seconds?

If you need to crank a modern diesel engine for 30 seconds before it starts, you've got a bigger problem than a flat battery!

 

[Geo]

We keep a couple, 1 in the Garage and 1 in Recovery Truck amazing kit
we have the GB70s

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[ambulancekidd]

We keep a couple, 1 in the Garage and 1 in Recovery Truck amazing kit
we have the GB70s

Good to hear that you find this bit of kit useful too, it could become one of those invaluable items to have around. I'm going to treat us to another one, to keep one in the moho & one on the car.