Best Battery charger from Mendards VS Cheapest one from Amazon
Video by Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek
Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek
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This project compares a cheap, manual battery charger to an expensive, automatic one by attempting to jump-start a dead car. The process involves assembling the manual charger, testing both chargers with the car's under-hood terminals, and then connecting them directly to the battery in the trunk for a definitive comparison. The video highlights the pros and cons of modern, automatic chargers versus traditional, manual models, ultimately demonstrating the reliability of the old-school approach for a dead battery.
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(6,541 characters)all right you guys today we're gonna be take my wife is talking the bird is talking and I'm talking this is not confusing to you guys at all my Dodge Challenger is dead are you kidding me we're gonna actually take the nicest battery charger from Bernards and we're gonna put it against the cheapest addre charger that I could buy off from Amazon so this is gonna be a head-to-head test Duff does not go the way I thought it was going to go in a bit at all mister things up it's gonna be checking out the street which one works and which one doesn't this is gonna be a real a wild roller coaster today cooing just gonna have highs guys I'm happy squirrel we're gonna have lows it's gonna be emotional knew it I had that feeling over battery charger all right let's do this thing I bought the highest earned battery charger out of Menards that I could find the cheapest battery charger with a couple exceptions I could find on Amazon so I wanted something that I could turn I knew it would have a timer on it but I could also put it on the hold sequence this is made by Speedway so this one was 189 hand the Menards one was 199 well I gotta assemble this thing so we gotta install the handle Menards one the assembly took about 30 seconds you literally just pulled the handle stuck it in place and then it locked [Music] my bird knows better okay I'm not a good instruction here time don't read instructions one thing before is the other thing so why I'm an excavating operator all right that's how she rolls all right fun adventures assembling a battery charger it's time for these two chargers to put their money where their mouth is first up is the die hard you got the juice - Buster whose connect clams it's got it's got instructions for us cuz when we go to jumpstart a car some people might just put this in front of it and go you didn't connect the clamps so here's the ground becomes Frankie in his fancy truck here's the test there we go we got a click she's clicking and popping oh she's confused hey what is the battery charger say Frankie something maintaining it says engine start ok so it still wants to go alright cool down wait a minute did it go into cooldown mode engine start cool down that's what I don't like about this thing is it's like no we don't want you to keep trying to start it we want to cool down actually what it's doing is discharging the battery yeah I don't like so it's got its little readout and it's pretty cool for the readout but right now we can't do anything that gives me a countdown before I can try to start again 139 seconds hey Siri what's the temp outside do you feel like standing out here in the freaking cold for 139 seconds no all right let's get that regular jump yeah this is the Amazon one right so here's the nice thing yes still plugged in boom you know an electronic yourself now let's see what our cheap Amazon battery charger does that batteries got to be fried Oh either one of them so hey what do you think we proved today Frankie Syd what you want you got it there you can tell us how to read this and I believe when it's fully charged it'll go to zero it'll go down not up and down the opposite way yep you don't really have to you can have more problems with gauges than this you're bored going out through there's no board on this you know so the assembly process that would took me a while to assemble and it's kind of chilly made you know some of the way the axes are this one was already came assembled this one you get set for an hour she shuts out yeah when you don't can't I'll take the old-school one any time you can set the dial set it forget it walk away come back you can put it on hold you can charge for days if you wanted to all right well I was honestly hoping that this cheap one would smoke the good one well we ain't done yet why do you think they have it set up so that you you charge it from the front because they actually do easy access you have a ground clampy symbol right there let's see if she'll fire up so what we did is we hooked her right up to the back challenger this is where the battery is you guys in the trunk take your guess is hulking directly to the battery you think that's gonna be better or do you think it's better that we hooked to the dedicated charging port [Music] skadoosh all right well now we do have something worth sharing hook right up to your battery when you're going to charge I wonder if the other one would jumpstart it though let's find out [Music] sounds good [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay well that does prove it I do it I knew it I knew it I knew it not excited yet you guys 275 amp charger 200 amp charger engine start ready connect it up solid there connect it up solid there I don't know what else to do you guys it's the same thing I did with the other one let's see let's see if she'll start so now the benefit that this charger has is this charger already got the car running and then I immediately turned it off and pulled it off so that it wouldn't charge it up too much but that I had that gut feeling you guys had that gut feeling let's find out zip zero zilch now let's immediately hook the other one up and see what it does you guys I screwed something up which it could have how I screw enough things up not bragging I just stir things up one thing I notice about this cheapo is you can actually feel the you can actually feel a little shot go through but we're hooked up now start and let's go see if she will fire [Applause] [Music] yes sorry excited yes I'm excited Phil had that feeling I had it ahead of the headache pass DNA expensive Renard's Sears diehard would not do it not do it I knew it I had that feeling all right you guys now I'm happy disappointed at first happy now cuz I just ah yeah good old school technology old school versus the new Fandango lead angle lead angles nah nah there you go you guys pass and fail figured it out finally took long enough and I got a car that's running again all right you guys god bless go get them you guys and check out these videos right here and I just had some fun now I want to hear from you guys what kind of videos do you want to see us see more edumacation because me smart me like talk big words sometimes I can give you more edumacation or I can do more reviews I can do more jobs in the living god sites going on I'll do more of those in the summer time and that's all I got for you and some of you guys like my Jeep videos maybe I'll make some videos frickin love that G it's just soul drug in it alright god bless go get him you guys
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