There actually are "USB Battery Banks" that claim their 12V output is enough to jump a car. I expect that they will need you to connect it for several minutes to slowly recharge your 12V battery, since these devices work by boosting the single 3.7V cell inside to whatever output is needed (5V or 12V) so it cannot be more than a few Amps, but after several minutes the battery may have regained sufficient energy to crank once and that is all most modern ICE cars need. One example of this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stanley/311594792517
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Meier via EV Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 5:33 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Pop-starting a stick shift? Most kids carry a 5V 2A+ usb battery. If only it had a 12v port it might be enough to get the car to fire with a push. How many amps does a 'dead' ICEv need to power up? 5V to 12v boost converters are pretty cheap. They would only need to run for a few minutes. It would be funnier to strap a 100w+ PV panel onto the hood jumpered in, then push start. -- -Chris On August 18, 2016 9:27:45 AM CDT, Robert Bruninga via EV <[email protected]> wrote: >This is the only car group I know. So pardon the off-topic post. > > > >A young kid with a minicooper flagged me down to jump start his car. I >told him, I'd be happy to if he could figure out how to use my 400V >pack.... > > > >Then I asked, well, have you tried just rolling it and popping the >clutch >to get it started. He looked at me with blank stare. I smugly said, >sure, >it's a stick shift, so we just get it rolling and pop the clutch and it >will start. > > > >It wouldn't. Then I began to realize, that all the cars I have done >this >with in the past DID NOT HAVE ANY CPU's in them. IE, all you have to >do is >get a spark, not power up and entire network of computers before the >motor >will even begin to consider the "starting process". > > > >So is this true? That we can no longer pop-start a modern car with a >dead >battery? > > > >My son (too cheap to buy a new battery) still does it frequently with >his >pre-cpu Geo-Tracker, in fact we just did it last week. > > > >I'm just too old for all these newfangled hurdles... > > > >Bob >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160818/8d0 76b7c/attachment.htm> >_______________________________________________ >UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ >Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA >(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
