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christyler
 


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Amazing D3 Jumpstart.

I just arrived back from a 3 day trip to amsterdam with my two mates Andy linton and Andy Green we were going to drive home in Andy Lintons D3, he recently had a new battery fitted due to a dead cell.
When we arrived at the short stay car park in dublin airport and attempted to start the car all we got was a vague clicking noise.
Having no jump leads or anything with us we looked around for some help from the carpark personell, and having waisted time at that. We rang the AA and got the usual 1 hour estimate. So Andy green suggested that we jump start the car from the 18v de walt drill battery that was in the car, need less to say we had a bit of a laugh, then decided as we had a hour to kill we might as well try anyway.
So i go two screws to facilatate attaching some wires to the battery, the only wire we had in the car was some cat 5 not realy the right thing to use but needs must. i jamed the screws in the battery and twisted the cat 5 on to it and twisted the other ends around the battery terminals.
we measured the battery volts before we connected it was 11.2v. to say that the cat 5 got a bit hot would be an understatment but it didnt melt.
we left this connected for about 5 minutes untill the cat 5 started to cool down, indicating that less current was being drawn at this point the battery voltage was reading 12.86v the de walt battery was also nice and warm at this point.
then we gave the nod to andy linton who turned the key and hey presto, to our amazement, one started D3.

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so always keep a dewalt 18volt drill in the back of yer motor just in case Chris. Laughing
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Gazavich wrote:
so always keep a dewalt 18volt drill in the back of yer motor just in case Chris. Laughing


i suppose jump leads would be handier, but this is ireland Whistle Whistle
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You got the job done with what was at hand. Great job Chris Thumbs Up
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Now if you were really good Chris you would have used the drill as the starter motor Whistle Thumbs Up
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DiscoStu wrote:
Shocked Is it April 1st? Can't believe it worked. Can't believe you tried! Laughing


Well you know me Stu Whistle If needs must Exclamation
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Chris,

I'm suprised you didnt just waft a bit of that infamous loopy juice in front of the mota - it'll jump start the dead let alone a battery. Laughing

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