http://ohgizmo.disqus.com/enMon, 06 Jul 2009 10:20:27 -0000http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/07/06/jump-your-car-via-cigarette-adapter/#comment-12196360<p>I've tried to use one of these cigarette lighter jumpers before, and it sucked. The lighter has relatively thin wires going to it, and as a result, you can push much less current to the battery through it than you can with regular jumper cables. As a result, unless your battery is just BARELY dead, it takes forever to get your battery to a charge level that can start your car, and if your battery is sufficiently dead, it'll never get charged, because there's not enough current to even get the charging process started.</p><p>The cigarette lighter thing is a clever solution, but vastly inferior to real jumper cables. If you carry a cigarette lighter jumper, you should have a backup pair of cables. But heck, just carry a pair of cables and save yourself the money on the cigarette lighter thing.</p>joshuabardwellMon, 06 Jul 2009 10:20:27 -0000