Suaoki G7 Jump starters

Hi Chris

Are you sure that you do not have the Irish version......lol

We also have the same unit and had to put it into use at Nhulunbuy.

The guy camped next to us in a diesel Holden Captiva had a flat battery one morning, so like you I said I will get you going with my new toy.

Connected it all up, but was a little concerned that his lights came on the moment his ignition was turned on. He hit the key to turn the vehicle over nd it started his car immediately.

He was so impressed by the very small size, he took out his phone, took a few photos and said he was going to buy one when he got back to Darwin.

Have you tried it on another vehicle with a flat battery to make sure it was not the other car or the charger?



Cheers




Stephen

I would have expected the G7 to be able to do it easily.
Have you ever started a flat battery car before?? This will let you know if you are doing it right (or not)
I have a T10 and I need to press the ON button to jump start a car. - Was the G7 ON when you tried it out??

Bear in mind that if the BT50 battery was dead flat, your little jump starter would be trying to pump Volts into the battery as well as trying to start the car so that would affect the performance as well.

Chris, I have the G7 and had a similar problem with the tuck truck the other week. Battery was dead (and I mean dead) flat. Checked the capacity of the G7 after 6 months in the cupboard and it registered 100%. Hooked it up, got the greens on the lead and turned the key....Nothing. G7 began beeping (low voltage alarm). Checked again...30% capacity. Fully charged it for a few hours back to 100%, hooked up the G7, got the greens on the leads and again nothing. Checked out the G7 while scratching my head thinking what the? (it had worked on every other occasion) and realised that I had not pressed the on button. Guess what....it cranked it but only just.

I think that if the crank is totally drained, even the G7 will have an issue. Just remember that when the green indicator lights come on in the lead capacitor (or what ever that thing is), you still need to turn the unit on. Maybe that was the issue?

Great units. I carry it as an emergency start and popwer source on the quad expeditions.

Cheers

Mick

Cheerfs

Gday Chris, I bough one off EBay at the end of May. I charged it, stuck it under my seat and checked it 6 weeks later, dead flat. I have been trying to communicate with the seller. He told me to cycle the unit and i did twice with my mobile phones, all looked good but I checked it again 10 days ago, only 43% charge, the unit was turned off when stored. So much for his 12 months warranty, he offered me $10 refund if I could still use it.So these units obviously have issues, I'm guessing they will come to the surface as owners try to use them in an emergency. My EBay seller is ignoring me now so I will have to wait to see how it goes. I think ill give EBay a miss in the future for for electronic gear and or not leave feedback. At least you have 6 months to leave bad feedback if it all goes south. Michael

Chris, I was thinking about your particular experience, the instruction do say that if the flat battery is over 12v, possibly a surface charge/voltage, you need to lower that voltage by operating the headlights to reduce it so to allow the unit to see the lower voltage so it will actually work. I tried to start my ride on mower and had a similar experience, just click click click, it was only the ride on battery in the circuit because it couldn't see that lower voltage.Just a thought! Regards, Michael

Foot note to the user instructions, always read after using the unit

I find it rather unsafe/unusual for negative clamp to be placed on negative battery terminal, all the battery leads I have seen of late including one's with anti pulse/surge arrester suggest using a earth on the engine/chassis, to prevent battery explosion esp if a collapsed battery is involved.

Also fairly certain that if a "jump start procedure was to be performed the unit has to be switched on to allow this function to occur - bit like using a defib unit it may work just by trickle flow (bit like a pacemaker for heart) but when you want to give something a big kick in pants (chest) then needs to be turned on to give full capacity