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First Attempt: DieHard Charger (Under-Hood Terminals)

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What happens here

With the Speedway charger assembled, the presenter brings both the DieHard and Speedway chargers to the car. He connects the DieHard Platinum battery charger to the positive and negative terminals located under the car's hood, which are designed for jump-starting. He attempts to start the car, but the DieHard charger displays an 'ENGINE START COOL DOWN' message, preventing immediate re-attempts due to its automatic safety features and smart charging logic. This prompts a waiting period.

Goal: Attempt to jump-start the car using the DieHard charger connected under the hood

Tools and materials

  • DieHard Battery Charger DieHard Platinum — Connecting to the car battery
  • Dodge Challenger Dodge — The car to be jump-started
  • Jumper Cables — Connecting the charger to the car's terminals

What they say

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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

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