Starting wires for car
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It is always extremely unpleasant for a car enthusiast when the car does not start due to battery... Especially somewhere outside the city. And it is triple unpleasant if in winter or in the dark.
Very often, the battery is dead when the driver accidentally forgets to turn off the parking lights, because now even during the day it is supposed to drive with headlights. A few hesitant turns of the starter - and the engine died down. It's good when you have the opportunity to light a cigarette from someone, call your friends, for example, or ask the same taxi drivers for money to ask for help. One way or another, you can find a person who will help you properly light a car from another car, and it would be nice to carry wires with you for this purpose, and the wires are of high quality.
What to look for when choosing a wire?
When buying a wire, you need to pay attention to:
- wire length;
- wire thickness;
- crocodile clip material.
These are the main points, the rest of the factors are secondary.
The most important thing that determines the successful start of the engine is the diameter of the wire. After all, the larger the diameter, the less voltage loss. The same with the length: the shorter, the better.
The recommended wire material is copper, as it has the least resistance; the diameter of the wire should be at least 6 millimeters, and preferably from 8 to 12. It should be noted that then the price will increase progressively: copper is now expensive.
To choose the right length, you need to see which car. If it is a truck, bus or a huge SUV, then you need to take wires 6 meters long, if a passenger car - then from 2 to 6. The vast majority of produced wires are 2 meters long, which is not enough, because it is not always possible to fit the car so close. If funds allow, it is better to choose wires 4 meters long.
In this case, it will be possible to “light up”, even if the cars are parallel to each other or generally in different directions, while the two-meter ones require the closest nose-to-nose approach, and this is not always possible in urban conditions: for example, if the driver got into the parking lot with his nose into the snowdrift
And the third factor is the crocodile clips themselves. They are desirable to be easy to open with little force and are highly desirable to be copper, again due to copper's excellent electrical conductivity.
TOP-5 wires for “lighting”
The best wire on the market, both according to experts and consumers, is DEKA professional thick wire, 8 meters long with huge “crocodiles”, it allows you to reach the most hard-to-reach batteries of jeeps, trucks, buses, construction and road equipment. They can start any car. The price of such a professional wire is 9200 rubles.
The second place is occupied by a domestic cable with the sonorous name “Council of an Auto Electrician” (the minimum price is 2448 rubles). This is the best in terms of technical characteristics of Russian wires, which are mainly suitable for cars and mini-trucks. As bloggers write, the cable has extremely low voltage losses.
The third place belongs to the Chinese-made wire “Autoprofi”, which is only slightly inferior to it in terms of characteristics (the minimum price is 865 rubles), then comes the Chinese cable Piece of mind (790 rubles), and the professional product Snap-on bojster cables closes the top five (price 7200 rubles), production of Mexico
How to properly light a cigarette
Here is the correct and completely uncomplicated “lighting up” algorithm:
- Warm up the donor car;
- Mute the donor car;
- Hook the positive clamp to the positive battery of the donor;
- Hook the second clamp to the positive battery of the recipient;
- Hook up the negative clamp to the negative (mass) of the battery of the donor machine;
- Hook up the second negative clamp to the mass of the recipient machine (to the metal part of the engine, cleaned of dirt);
- Be sure to remove the key from the recipient's ignition (suddenly the alarm will go off and the car with the keys will close);
- Start the motor of the donor machine and let it run for two or three minutes, while the recipient's battery will be recharged;
- Mute the donor and try to get the recipient;
- If it starts up, then remove the wires in the reverse order (first disconnect the minus from the engine).
Questions and answers:
What is better to buy wires for lighting? The cross-sectional area of such a wire must be at least 12 square centimeters. It is better to stay with the 16 sq. Cm option. or more powerful.
How to properly light a car with wires? The "donor" is jammed. The wires are connected to both batteries in accordance with the poles. The "donor" motor starts up. Waiting 15-20 minutes (revolutions above idle). The wires are disconnected, a car with a cigarette starts.
How to properly light a car on the machine? The type of transmission does not affect the battery charging process in any way. And during lighting, exactly that process takes place - a dead battery is recharged.
