[AliExpress] 12v car outlet to 5v USB adapter w/ voltage and current monitoring displays (display voltage drop on crank!) $4 shipped

this is good to monitor ur starter? i just had mine worked on! car was DOA!

mikka2017 wrote: ↑ this is good to monitor ur starter? i just had mine worked on! car was DOA!

Just the voltages from the battery. It can't help you there.

I think based on what you described in another thread/post, it's likely you have a bad starter.

Ordered 1. Thanks OP. Weird as it switches between the .ca to the .com site. Also, buying 2 adds shipping fees, even when you revert to 1... Also realized that Aliexpress now re-accepts Paypal (unless i'm really late with the news...)

Picked up one and don't even really need it but can't have enough tools for the car lol Thanks OP

It took me awhile to realize this is a car charger

Their thresholds for the colours are a little out of whack. Showing high voltage at 14.8V for a high charging voltage (not battery voltage) is accurate if the alternator is running.

Fully charged lead acid battery cells should be 2.1V or mybe 2.15V each, which multiplied by 6 cells is 12.6V (12.5 when it's cold outside). That varies a tiny bit by the battery type. They show "low" at 11.6V but that's very low - it's basically the bare minimum you'd ever want your battery to get to and it's likely too low to start the vehicle.

A fully and completely dead battery is about 1.7V per cell, or 10.8V total - but that's the threshold at which sulfation occurs and it's almost guaranteed there is some amount of permanent damage to the battery.

It's safer to keep the battery not much below 2V per cell, or 12.0V total.

belmichel wrote: ↑Ordered 1. Thanks OP. Weird as it switches between the .ca to the .com site. Also, buying 2 adds shipping fees, even when you revert to 1... Also realized that Aliexpress now re-accepts Paypal (unless i'm really late with the news...)

Careful when using PayPal. I tried it with a credit card that was linked to my PayPal account and I was charged a cash advance fee (and corresponding interest). I got the charges reversed as a one time courtesy. I guess if you have a balance in your account you should be ok but use caution if you plan to use a credit card that's linked to your PayPal account.

RudeDoggy wrote: ↑ Careful when using PayPal. I tried it with a credit card that was linked to my PayPal account and I was charged a cash advance fee (and corresponding interest). I got the charges reversed as a one time courtesy. I guess if you have a balance in your account you should be ok but use caution if you plan to use a credit card that's linked to your PayPal account.

Curious which CC company were you with.

I just purchased some items & paid with PayPal connected to my Stack MC.
I didn't incurred any additional fee.

I already have a QC3.0 car charger. Don't really need this adapter, but once I saw that shiny LED display, I knew I have to have it. Thanks OP.

jay-em wrote: ↑ Curious which CC company were you with.

I just purchased some items & paid with PayPal connected to my Stack MC.
I didn't incurred any additional fee.

Rogers World Elite MasterCard.

RudeDoggy wrote: ↑ Rogers World Elite MasterCard.

Do you also have your bank account attached as backup?

Remember the readings from the interior power outlet are ~0.2v lower than from the battery posts. Couple of useful tables ...

ykhehra1 wrote: ↑ Do you also have your bank account attached as backup?

I think my bank account is linked but when I processed the payment, I used my credit card since I figured I'd get my net 0.5% cashback vs net -2.5% commission fee on the foreign exchange rate.

Presumably if you use your bank account, you'll just get charged the forex fee (whether it's from Paypal or from your bank).

Or just enter your credit card details directly into aliexpress, which is what I normally do. (I was initially sketched out a bit by that but have been doing that for a couple of years now.)

soupmaster666 wrote: ↑ Their thresholds for the colours are a little out of whack. Showing high voltage at 14.8V for a high charging voltage (not battery voltage) is accurate if the alternator is running.

Fully charged lead acid battery cells should be 2.1V or mybe 2.15V each, which multiplied by 6 cells is 12.6V (12.5 when it's cold outside). That varies a tiny bit by the battery type. They show "low" at 11.6V but that's very low - it's basically the bare minimum you'd ever want your battery to get to and it's likely too low to start the vehicle.

A fully and completely dead battery is about 1.7V per cell, or 10.8V total - but that's the threshold at which sulfation occurs and it's almost guaranteed there is some amount of permanent damage to the battery.

It's safer to keep the battery not much below 2V per cell, or 12.0V total.

And the range after start is normally 13.4v -15v for most vehicles. Basically ignore this chart on the selling page ...

RudeDoggy wrote: ↑ Rogers World Elite MasterCard.

I use this same card for the same reasons on most of my ebay/ali purchases, and have never been charged extra or some cash advance fee.

pererac wrote: ↑ I use this same card for the same reasons on most of my ebay/ali purchases, and have never been charged extra or some cash advance fee.

Shrug, all I can say is that I made two purchases on AliExpress using the Rogers World Elite MasterCard linked to my PayPal account and was charged two cash advance fees.

I've made lots of purchases using my credit card directly with AliExpress with no issues. Only when using the PayPal option was I charged the cash advance fee.

I think it has something to do with the fact that when using PayPal on AliExpress, it also somehow gets processed through Alipay (as shown on my credit card statement) and Rogers Bank treats that as a cash advance.

I've obviously used PayPal with the same credit card at other places and had no issues.

So this QC charges two phones simultaneously at 15w? Review photos show 5V 3.1A output printed on device.

I RFD wrote: ↑ So this QC charges two phones simultaneously at 15w? Review photos show 5V 3.1A output printed on device.

One of the usb ports is a "QC3.0" ( charge > 5v) as advertised. I'll test it later today and see.

Thanks for posting this....don't need one but I ordered 2 separately. Does anyone know why there's shipping charges for more
than one, costing them more to ship?