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Black & Decker BBC2CB Vehicle to Vehicle Battery Booster |  | Brand: Black & Decker
Category: Automotive Parts and Accessories
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $22.94
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Seller: Buckeye Tool Supply
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 6749
Media: Misc.
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.6 x 11
MPN: BBC2CB
Model: BBC2CB
UPC: 885911029339
EAN: 0885911029339
ASIN: B000UKMVXY
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| Features:
| • | Simple Start vehicle to vehicle battery booster | | • | LED light to indicate charging process | | • | Compact design stores neatly in most glove compartments | | • | No buttons or switches | | • | Works with most 12v vehicles adapters |
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Product Description
Simple Start, 12V To 12V Jump Starter, Retractable Cord With Dual 12V Plugs, Charges Drained Battery Through Cigarette Lighter Via 12V Plugs, Drained Battery Will Be Charged In 8-10 Minutes Depending Upon Level Of Drained & Charged Batteries, No Need To Open Hood To Charge Vehicle's Battery.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 10
 Think About It August 31, 2010
Inspector Nash Bridges (Baghdad by the Bay)
The cigarette lighter port, or power port, connects to the battery. Electrity should go straight to the battery from the donor, right?
WRONG!
American cars are wired to the battery. Plug the black end into the donor vehicle, with the engine running, and the orange end into the dead vehicle, and it's just as good of a connection as lifting your hood and using booster cables.
Foreign vehicles have an ignition bypass. None of the accessories work without the key being on. Connect two Japanese cars via the cigarette lighter ports, walk away thinking that power will magically transfer from one vehicle to the other, and nothing will happen. Leave the donor vehicle running, then turn the dead vehicle's key to the on position & turn off the A/C, heat, and radio, it should work as intended.
The real problem with this device is the end user not understanding the electronics of their vehicle.
Get a jumpstarter instead. Most car batteries come with 600 to 800 Cold Cranking Amps. Get a jumpstarter with at least 500 amps. Don't be the idiot with a jumpstarter that isn't strong enough to actually start your car. I like Jump-N-Carry - 1700 Peak Amp 12 Volt Jump Starter (660) & Solar (KK JNC660) Jump-N-Carry 12 Volt Jump Starter - 1700 Peak Amps.
 Not worth it!! July 13, 2010
jakenjuli
I too purchased these, thinking they would be great for an inexperienced teenage driver. Boy was I wrong. Thank goodness my child hasn't been stranded and needed them. I have tried to help a neighbor with these, but nothing happened. Now, my own car is dead in the driveway and I've been "charging" between the two cars for almost an hour. Nothing (and yes, I did check to be sure the cig lighter stayed "hot" when the ignition was off). I am very unhappy with this useless product.
Worked for us June 16, 2010
LM1000 (upstate NY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If I had read all the bad reviews on here, I probably would not have bought this product. However, for the price we found it for, I figured it can't hurt to have an option in case we needed it. A couple days ago we had a reason to try it out. After cleaning the vehicle in the garage, I left the radio on and door open, went into the house, and forgot I left it on. When I came back out about 2 hours ago, the batter was dead and the car wouldn't start. We pushed the vehicle (a Saturn Vue) out of the Garage and lined it up next to our other car hooked this up according to the instructions, and waited. When the lights turned green, we unhooked it and tried to start the car, and it worked.
Maybe it matters if the vehicles are new or not (we have one 2008 and a 2009) or maybe it matters what type of vehicle you have (both of ours are GM products), but it worked for us fine.
Waste of time and money May 1, 2010
A. Forisha
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Despite the poor reviews I still bought this device determined to make it work. Mainly because I don't know how to use jumper cables. This would be the coolest thing ever if it worked, which it doesn't. I went to use it and I am a woman so I spent about an hour inspecting the device and reading over instructions line by line. Like I said I was determined. I tried it twice 20 min each time. Manuale said not to exceed 40 min. Still no luck. I searched every where in the manuale and online for some trouble shooting issues, thinking I had to of missed someting. Nothing on trouble shooting issues anywhere, and Customer service was just a waste of my Cell minutes. Please do not do what I did listen to these reviews DO NOT BUY this. I am now going to return this product and try and figure out how to use jumper cables :(
Why these things are no substitute for real jumper cables March 25, 2010
HMMWV (santa clara, CA USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've seen dozens of late night infomercials showing the stranded lady and 2 kids in their nice warm car with tons of snow outside just plugging a jump start device into the cigarette lighter outlet and turning over the dead vehicle which now starts like magic. It's all ficticious, and bad acting to boot.
First off, the starter motor on my honda pilot draws 240 amps. On my humvee it draws 680 amps. The fuse on ALL vehicle's cigarette lighter outlets is 10 amps and not a penny more - so there is no way you will ever run the starter through the cigarette lighter without adding a blown fuse to your list of electrical problems.
But what about letting a running car use the 10A to put enough charge into the dead car to start it. BZZT - that ain't gonna work either because the running vehicle has probably a 14VDC voltage at the lighter socket, while the dead car has lets say 8VDC for a difference of 6V! That tiny wire that they use has such a high resistance that the whole 6V difference is lost in the connecting wire leaving nothing to charge the dead car.
There are 2 ways to jump start a car..
If you do it occasionally, buy a good set of 4GA cables and keep them where you can get to them. Amazon has some good ones like Coleman Cable 08666 16-Foot Heavy-Duty Truck and Auto Battery Booster Cables with Polar Glow Clamps, 4-Gauge which are not too long and use heavy duty 4GA cable capable of actually running your starter from the other vehicle's battery+alternator together.
If you do it professionally (eg fleet vehicles or tow trucks) install an "anderson" power connector in the front bumper and hardwire it to your truck's battery - then on your set of cables remove the two clips and install the mating anderson connector so you don't even have to pop the hood to jump yourself or give someone else a boost. You can also put anderson connectors on your battery chargers/testers so you can check your battery without having to climb into the engine compartment. Nicely done this is a very convenient high current 12VDC outlet on your vehicle with alot of uses.
Basically the lighter socket should be used for running cell phone chargers (0.25A) or portable worklights (1.0A) - but anything that claims to get more than 140 watts from a lighter is stretching it and possibly going to blow your lighter fuse.
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