{"id":19018,"date":"2022-10-08T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/?p=19018"},"modified":"2024-09-12T10:13:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:13:54","slug":"sealey-electrostart-800-product-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/sealey-electrostart-800-product-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Sealey Electrostart 800 – Product Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’re taking the classic out. You’re excited. It’s going to be a good day. The open road, your classic, the sweet sounds of internal combustion filling your ears. Bliss. You slide into the driver’s seat, you put the key in the ignition, you turn it and… nothing. The battery is flat. You scream internally. There is no worse feeling than that of being scuppered by a lack of volts. Sure, if you keep your car in the garage, you can leave it on a trickle charger<\/a>. But not all of us have that luxury. And sure, you could jump it off another car, but that’s a faff. A little lithium jump pack? Great, until you remember it needs charging, so that’ll take two hours. If only there was a better solution. Something like, say, the Sealey Electrostart 800. <\/p>\n

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Get your Sealey Electrostart 800 here<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Product<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

This is really, really clever. The common jump packs you see today are nifty, what with their lithium batteries and what not. However, jumping a car means a very sudden jolt of power is needed, and lithium batteries don’t like this. They’re build for longevity, not sudden, high power outbursts. As such, they quickly degrade and before you know it, your jump pack is useless. This Electrostart 800 is different. It doesn’t use batteries. I know, your head just popped. How does it jump a car if it has no batteries? Capacitors, that’s how. It has a bank of them internally, and capacitors are by design meant for short, sudden bursts of electricity. Perfect. But that’s not all. <\/p>\n

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To charge the Electrostart 800, you can use your flat battery. <\/em>Madness, right? Just because a car battery can’t start the car, it doesn’t mean it’s dead. There are still volts in there, just not enough of them to crank your engine. Connect the Electrostart 800, turn it on, and if you have between approx. 5 and 9 volts in there, it will quickly charge up. Nifty. Then it’ll keenly shoot the power back into your car, and away you go. In theory. But we don’t do theory here at Car & Classic. <\/em>We test. <\/p>\n

The Test<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

I’m a busy chap, what with everything I need to do here at  Car & Classic.<\/em> As such, my cars do sometimes end up a little… forgotten. I’m sure that’s obvious via the three inches of dirt atop my Rover 800. It also had a dead battery. Perfect then. Normally, the Electrostart 800 would pull volts from the tired battery and shoot them back in. That wasn’t to be though, as the battery had a mere 4.6 volts rattling around within. Not enough to charge the device. Snookered then, right? Well, no. You can also charge it up via a micro USB or 12V socket (on another car) so I did that. Just plug it in, press the ‘on\/off’ button and away you go. It charges in about 2 mins, if that. When it has enough kick, a symbol with a car and key appears, telling you it’s good to go. I didn’t think, however, it would bring the Rover back around. It was completely dead. <\/p>\n\n\t\t