Great video...from here in America.........as we celebrate Trumps victory...and will again soon be able to afford petrol....and not have our cars sit for months and months.
Thanks Kee 👍😁. It must be crazy at the moment over there in America with various celebrations going on. When someone new gets put into "power" over here, to the most part most people say "meh" and move on 🤣. - Scott
Those leads are way too short! I don't think they'd even reach the battery pins on my Disco 3... Also would be interested to know whether you managed to get any charge in the battery as I suspect once the Mini was started it was just running on the alternator output?
Before buying the NOCO, I watched some other reviews and people using it, and one of the guys used it on his big "Yank Tank" and the clips reached. But they are indeed very short to say the least! 😄 They do say the leads are short by design due to how much current is delivered from the unit. I'm not techie enough to know how right their statement is. 😄 I guess on the flip side, do you need the negative clip on the negative pole? Or could you just clip the negative to a grounding point close to the positive pole of the battery? I'm just thinking out loud really. 😁 We didn't really leave the Mini running long enough to put any charge into the battery. But after we stopped filming, the Mini went back to being fully dead. So I'm guessing the battery is toast! 😄 The Mini does have quite a high compression engine, so credit to it getting the car running and it would've got us out of trouble if we were indeed in trouble. 😀 - Scott
@ScottandAlana4x4 The short lead design does make sense from a current carrying perspective, but an extra 50mm on each would have a negligible effect. Indeed to counter this they could've increased the wire gauge. At that current, best always to connect to the battery poles in my experience. Would've been interesting to see if the charger "past" Scott used was able to add charge after the Noco had been used? I have a Victron intelligent automatic charger which has revived a couple of batteries which were supposedly "dead"...its very impressive though I wouldn't rely on a revived battery for long. The Noco is still a useful little device to have in your boot to get you out of sticky situations. Enjoying your FL2 videos though. Alana and yourself have good on screen chemistry...much like Christian and Vera over at LR Time 👍
@AdeptHavelock If it wasn't for servicing the Freelander on the same day as this, "future Scott" was going to put the battery back on charge to see if the charger would then pick it up and continue to charge it. I think it was a day or two after we jumped it that I did put it on charge and any slight charge it did have must have left the battery as it came up "Err" on the charger again. 😀 Once we are not so busy, we are going to put a can of fuel in it, take it for a drive, and see if the battery has any life left in it. I feel like the battery is so deep discharged that it's now become a square ornament with distilled water in it. 😄 We were just happy that the NOCO served its purpose mainly. At least if we are out camping and get a low battery, this should hopefully rescue us 🤞😁. Failing that, it'll be used as a phone / GoPro top-up device. 😂 Alana just puts up with me really 😂. She could do better, but she says that she doesn't have the motivation, so "I'll do" for now. 😄 - Scott
nice job on the video
Thanks Steve 👍.
- Scott
Great video...from here in America.........as we celebrate Trumps victory...and will again soon be able to afford petrol....and not have our cars sit for months and months.
Thanks Kee 👍😁. It must be crazy at the moment over there in America with various celebrations going on. When someone new gets put into "power" over here, to the most part most people say "meh" and move on 🤣.
- Scott
Those leads are way too short! I don't think they'd even reach the battery pins on my Disco 3...
Also would be interested to know whether you managed to get any charge in the battery as I suspect once the Mini was started it was just running on the alternator output?
Before buying the NOCO, I watched some other reviews and people using it, and one of the guys used it on his big "Yank Tank" and the clips reached. But they are indeed very short to say the least! 😄 They do say the leads are short by design due to how much current is delivered from the unit. I'm not techie enough to know how right their statement is. 😄
I guess on the flip side, do you need the negative clip on the negative pole? Or could you just clip the negative to a grounding point close to the positive pole of the battery? I'm just thinking out loud really. 😁
We didn't really leave the Mini running long enough to put any charge into the battery. But after we stopped filming, the Mini went back to being fully dead. So I'm guessing the battery is toast! 😄
The Mini does have quite a high compression engine, so credit to it getting the car running and it would've got us out of trouble if we were indeed in trouble. 😀
- Scott
@ScottandAlana4x4 The short lead design does make sense from a current carrying perspective, but an extra 50mm on each would have a negligible effect. Indeed to counter this they could've increased the wire gauge.
At that current, best always to connect to the battery poles in my experience.
Would've been interesting to see if the charger "past" Scott used was able to add charge after the Noco had been used?
I have a Victron intelligent automatic charger which has revived a couple of batteries which were supposedly "dead"...its very impressive though I wouldn't rely on a revived battery for long.
The Noco is still a useful little device to have in your boot to get you out of sticky situations.
Enjoying your FL2 videos though. Alana and yourself have good on screen chemistry...much like Christian and Vera over at LR Time 👍
@AdeptHavelock If it wasn't for servicing the Freelander on the same day as this, "future Scott" was going to put the battery back on charge to see if the charger would then pick it up and continue to charge it.
I think it was a day or two after we jumped it that I did put it on charge and any slight charge it did have must have left the battery as it came up "Err" on the charger again. 😀
Once we are not so busy, we are going to put a can of fuel in it, take it for a drive, and see if the battery has any life left in it. I feel like the battery is so deep discharged that it's now become a square ornament with distilled water in it. 😄
We were just happy that the NOCO served its purpose mainly. At least if we are out camping and get a low battery, this should hopefully rescue us 🤞😁. Failing that, it'll be used as a phone / GoPro top-up device. 😂
Alana just puts up with me really 😂. She could do better, but she says that she doesn't have the motivation, so "I'll do" for now. 😄
- Scott