Xiaomi 70mai Jump Starter First use

Everyone who has a car should have an emergency jump starter battery. Dead battery is one of the most common faults, and one of the easiest to fix while you are out there, on the road, or in the worse case, off road.

Jump start cables are a great solution as well, but they requires a second car with a similar battery, therefore, the best solution is these “mini jump starters”, they are relatively cheap, small and light weight so everyone can have and operate them.

Please allow me to say now, I’m happy with it. you can buy it from eBay, click the link of search for Xiaomi Jump Starter. Now, you can read further 🙂

I had few jump start batteries till now, 2-3 cheap no name Chinese ones, one Noco GB40 (which was the worst, worse than the cheap ones, it simply stopped working after 2 months, although it was always loaded) and now I bought the Xiaomi 70mai Jump Starter.

When I received the package and open it, I thought, “wow, that is small and pretty”. It is a smooth device, pretty small with 1 USB output and one USB-C input. just near them you’ll see the emergency flashlight and operating button. that is all. On the top of it, there are 4 small led lights that indicated the charging state.

In the package you will find the battery, cables (pretty thin, I must say) and a USB/USB-C cable for charging. Everything is in a nice light gray bag. Nice.

Last weekend we drove to the desert, the refrigerator worked during the night (almost 30C, at night!) so I woke up to a drained, dead battery.

So, I had a chance to test the Xiaomi 70mai jump starter in real life situation :), here is a video of the first use:

Spoiler alert: Finally, it did start the old 300 Tdi diesel engine, easily, I must admit. but, you have to push that little “Boost” button on the cable adapter if you wish it would do its work, that was odd. As you can see in the movie, connecting the cables wasn’t enough, I had to push the button and only then it worked.

Anyway, for now, I’m happy with the device, I will continue to update.

If you wish to buy it, have a look at the Xiaomi 70mai Jump Starters on eBay