Jumper cables

Heya. I have a DCLB and I’m shopping for jumper cables. Ideally I want them to have a canvas bag (which I can source if they don’t come with one) and fit behind the back seats. I’d like them to be long enough to jump from behind, and I don’t care what gauge they are unless someone tells me that’s important.

any recommendations? Trying to avoid Amazon mystery manufacturer junk

 

Any 2awg solid copper from your favorite store will do. Takes about 200A to jump the truck on a warm day, so you want the thicker copper to handle the higher amperage needed when it's cold out.

Pure silicone jacket will stay flexible better, but that's hard to find.

 

Look into Jump packs, I have Gooloo 4000, it has been solid for 3 years. My record is starting 6(maybe 7) GM 6.0L V8 on the same charge in January.

 

Why not a

$100 NOCO GB40 : 1000A UltraSafe Jump Starter – 12V Lithium Battery Booster Pack, Portable Jump Box, Power Bank & Jumper Cables - for 6.0L Gas and 3.0L Diesel Engines

NOCO GB40 jumper pack, with maybe jumper cables as secondary? NOC lets you jump-start without another vehicle.

 

Get a jump pack, with sensitive electronics I'd avoid jumper cables. I have a Weego in each of my vehicles. Even after sitting for 6 months they still show 80% charged. I charge them up just before winter and at the start of summer. I've started two stuck vehicles with the one in my truck.

If you're set on using jumper cables, thicker is better and will conduct more current.

 

I found over decades of winters that the thicker and heavier the cable wire the better. Get heavy sturdy connectors too as cables are only as good as the connectors. Having said that I've replaced my jumper cables with a booster pack. Hope i don't have to use it. One good thing is it's stand alone so if I help someone else it won't be connected directly to my ride.

 

2AM at a remote reststop on a desert freeway is not a good place for anyone to be dependent on a stranger to help use jumper cables. I do not want it, and I suspect a number of smaller females like it less.

NOCO lets you get a car going all by yourself for one last surge to get to civilization if that is all you can get from a battery.

 

I will also second the noco packs. I have one in each of my vehicles. I charge them annually in the fall when I load test all my batteries.

 

Love my NOCO Boost. Haven’t had to use it on my truck but have used it on daily driver as well as a few other times for coworkers etc. Absolutely worth the cost of admission in my opinion.

 

I think everyone should have a noco. Also in addition to the noco you should carry jumper cables, nothing less than 12’.

 

I keep one of these in my truck.

$127 Clore Automotive Jump-N-Carry JNC660 1700 Peak Amp 12 Volt Jump Starter , Blue

https://www.amazon.com/Clore-Automo...d81d7c2b82b4ef88a&qid=1742787172&sr=8-30&th=1

 

The only issue with jump packs is they don't like to work in the cold, I've had to use cables twice because my jump pack was too cold to operate.
So when it's -15f outside and you store your jump pack inside the vehicle odds are you will need cables.

 

Inside the house does you no good in the middle of a road trip. What yu say may be correct, but is not exactly encouraging.

 

When I’m on a road trip the inside of my truck is warm so the battery pack would also be warm.

 

Speaking of the

$100 NOCO GB40 : 1000A UltraSafe Jump Starter – 12V Lithium Battery Booster Pack, Portable Jump Box, Power Bank & Jumper Cables - for 6.0L Gas and 3.0L Diesel Engines

NOCO GB40, I attempted to jump a neighbor's jeep with mine back in December in the northeastern US and it didn't work. It was purchased last summer after the same model saved some friends and I in the Saline Valley in California with one. It was almost fully charged after sitting for a few months in my truck, and this was the first attempt to use it. Do these packs have to be connected for a few minutes to allow the charge to migrate from the pack to the dead battery?? The one used in the Saline Valley fired up the vehicle right away, but it was a warm spring day, and the battery requiring the charge was warm. The jeep mentioned above had been sitting for several days in sub-freezing weather.

 

The times I've needed to do jumps have always been on the coldest of cold days, if I lived in Arizona or Texas maybe it would be a different story. My jump pack experiences have been once in the morning my wife's car wouldn't start so the pack was cold from sitting out overnight, and the other time going to a grocery store someone in the lot had a dead battery. Both times it was too cold for the pack to work.
I'm just saying do not solely rely on a jump pack, you should carry cables as well.
My 12' cables are 20 years old and have never let me down, the only thing that sucks about them is how much space they take up. Though I like the jump pack because it works as a large battery bank to keep my gmrs radios and milwaukee usb batteries charged.

 

I used to have one of these, biggest hunk of junk I've ever used LOL. It completely died on me after 2 years. Real bummer.

 

That’s exactly what I previously said , always carry both, a jump pack and at least 12’ cables.

 

^^ This.. I have used my GB70 4 times this winter to help others out- and it easily holds a charge all through winter sitting under my back seats.

 

The Clore brand is what tow truck drivers and auto shops use. It's surprising yours failed.