Petzl Djinn Axess vs Black Diamond Hotwire

Buy the Petzl Djinn Axess, the 12 cm card whose title says Blue, when you want a lightweight beginner quickdraw and when you will ignore a color cell that says Violet and a lock-type cell that says Wire Lock. Buy the Black Diamond Hotwire, color cell Octane (Single Draw), when you want the wiregate quickdraw the bullets call a 12 cm dogbone, and when you will accept that this card prints no weight and no kilonewton rating. These are climbing quickdraws. They are not climbing shoes and they are not belay devices.

Short version. Two climbing shoes are what your feet wear on the same pitch. A Grigri and a Big Air belay device are what the rope runs through. Two harnesses are what the belay loop sits on. Two chalks are what your hands wear. A quickdraw is the sling and the two carabiners between the bolt and the rope. Match the model before you match the word draw.

The Petzl title on this card is "Petzl, Djinn Axess Quickdraw 12 Cm Blue." Twelve centimeters is in the title. Blue is in the title. The color cell says Violet. Blue and violet are not the same sling color. The product photo and a regenerated product shot can both look purple, which is how a title that says Blue and a cell that says Violet end up describing one webbing. Do not order a second draw because you wanted the other word. Look at the sling. If it is purple, the color cell won. If it is blue, the title won. The card does not print a Pantone number. The brand cell says PETZL. The unit-count cell says 1. One quickdraw, not a set of six. A sport rack is several orders, or a different listing that says a pack count. This card's unit count is 1.

The item-weight cell says 0.05 kilograms. Five hundredths of a kilogram is 50 grams. Petzl's own chart for the 12 cm Djinn Axess, which is not this Amazon cell, lists 107 grams. Fifty grams and 107 grams are not a rounding error. A 12 cm quickdraw with two carabiners does not weigh the same as a single small wiregate. If the draw in your hand is near 107 grams, the Amazon cell is the broken field and the maker chart is the one that matched the object. If the draw in your hand is near 50 grams, you did not receive the quickdraw this title describes, or you received a sling without a biner. Weigh it. Do not print 50 grams on a gear label and then wonder why the rack is heavier than the spreadsheet. Cite 0.05 kg as the cell and 107 g as the maker chart. Do not merge them into one official Amazon number.

The lock-type cell says Wire Lock. The Djinn is a solid-gate carabiner with a Keylock nose, not a wiregate. Wire Lock is the wrong gate. The Hotwire card's wire-lock cell is the one that matches a wiregate. Using the same words on the Djinn card is how a shopper buys a solid gate while believing they bought a wire. Look at the gate. A solid gate is a bar of metal that swings on a hinge pin. A wire gate is a bent wire. The shape cell says D-Shape. A D is a common quickdraw-biner profile. It does not tell you the gate. The bullets are thin: "Practical lightweight beginners quickdraw" and a materials string that says "Aluminum. Polyester. Rubber. Aluminium." Aluminum and aluminium are the same metal spelled two ways in one list. Polyester is the dogbone. Rubber is the keeper that holds a carabiner in line. The card does not print a sling length in a specification cell separate from the 12 cm in the title. The title is where 12 cm lives.

The GTIN is 03342540825437. Petzl's current 12 cm turquoise Djinn Axess uses a different EAN, 3342540841482. Those numbers do not match. The card's GTIN is not the current turquoise EAN. Do not reorder the turquoise draw and expect this listing's violet-or-blue argument to describe it. Do not assume a mismatched GTIN means the card is counterfeit. It means the identifier and the current catalog colorway are not the same string. Buy from a listing whose photo matches the sling you want, and keep the GTIN only as the identifier this page prints. The recommended-uses cell says Climbing. That one is honest. The card does not print a major-axis kilonewton rating, a minor-axis rating, an open-gate rating, or a CE mark in the cells above. A quickdraw without a strength number on the listing is a listing problem. The carabiners themselves should be stamped. Read the stamp. Do not invent a 24 kN or a 7 kN figure because a different Petzl biner uses those numbers. This card does not print them.

The Black Diamond card is the Hotwire in Octane, sold as a single draw. The color cell says "Octane (Single Draw)." The included-name line says 12 cm. The item-dimensions cell says 4.72 inches long by 4.72 inches wide. Twelve centimeters is 4.72 inches. The card filed the sling length as both the length and the width. A quickdraw is not square. Four point seven two inches of dogbone is the useful reading of one of those axes. The other axis is the same number copied. The lock-type cell says Wire Lock. On this card the phrase matches the product. The Hotwire is a wiregate. The bullets say wiregate, a polyester dogbone, a StraitJacket rope-end stabilizer, and an extended 12 cm dogbone. StraitJacket is the rubber keeper on the rope-end carabiner. It is a Black Diamond name. It is not a Petzl String. Do not call the Djinn's rubber keeper a StraitJacket. The materials on the Petzl card say rubber without the trade name.

The Hotwire UPC is 793661400899. The GTIN is 00793661400899, the same digits with a leading zero. One barcode, and it matches. That is cleaner than the Djinn GTIN's disagreement with the current turquoise EAN. The material cell says Aluminum. The shape cell says D-Shape. The unit-count cell says 1. Single Draw in the color cell agrees with unit count 1. There is no item-weight cell. There is no kilonewton cell. You cannot compare 0.05 kg with a Hotwire weight the card does not print, and you cannot compare a maker-chart 107 g with a Hotwire weight the card does not print either. Weigh the Hotwire yourself if weight is the reason you are choosing. The absence of a weight cell is the fact. Do not fill it with a number from a different Black Diamond draw. Octane is the color name. It is a bright orange-red in the product imagery for this colorway. The cell does not say orange. It says Octane (Single Draw). If the sling in the box is a different Black Diamond colorway, the color cell was not what shipped.

Neither card prints a rope-end and a bolt-end as separate strength ratings. A quickdraw has a straight-gate or a wiregate on the bolt end and a bent gate on the rope end on most sport draws. The Hotwire bullets say a StraitJacket on the rope end, which tells you the rubber is on the rope-end biner. The Djinn card does not say which biner gets the rubber. The beginner bullet on the Djinn card is a use claim, not a strength reduction. Beginner does not mean a lower kilonewton rating the card forgot to print. It means the copy is aimed at someone buying a first draw. The first draw still has to hold a fall. Read the stamp on the spine because the listing did not.

Who should buy the Djinn Axess, and who should buy the Hotwire?

Buy the Djinn Axess if you want Petzl's solid-gate beginner draw in the 12 cm length the title prints, and if you will ignore Wire Lock, settle the blue-versus-violet argument with your eyes, and weigh the draw instead of trusting 0.05 kg. Buy the Hotwire if you want a wiregate, a 12 cm dogbone, a StraitJacket on the rope end, and the Octane color on a single draw, and if you can live with a card that prints neither weight nor kilonewtons. Buy the Hotwire if the dimension cell's doubled 4.72 inches does not fool you into picturing a square sling.

Do not buy the Djinn because Wire Lock sounded like the gate you already like on a wiregate draw. Do not buy six of either card and expect a rack price or a rack count. Unit count is 1 on both. Do not buy either draw as a locking carabiner for a belay. A quickdraw gate is not a locking gate. The lock-type cell's word Lock is about the gate style in a marketplace vocabulary. It is not a screw lock. Do not clip a belay loop to either draw and call it a locker.

What the Djinn Axess card is actually for

This card is one 12 cm Petzl quickdraw for a beginner rack, with a GTIN that is not the current turquoise EAN. The useful identity is the title's 12 cm, the brand Petzl, the model words Djinn Axess, one unit, polyester and rubber and aluminum in the materials string, and a climbing use cell. The warnings are the color cell Violet against the title Blue, the weight cell 0.05 kg against the maker chart's 107 g, and Wire Lock on a solid-gate biner. The missing kilonewton number is the gap. The stamp on the carabiner is where the strength lives if the forging is genuine. A card that cannot decide between blue and violet is a card that can also ship the wrong colorway. Open the bag before you clip it to a harness and walk to the base of the route.

Keylock, on a Djinn nose, is the snag-free nose Petzl uses so a bolt hanger does not catch the gate notch. This Amazon card does not print the word Keylock. That word is the product's known design, and it is not a cell you can cite as Amazon's. Cite the title and the gate you can see. If the nose is notched like an older biner, look harder at whether the draw is the Djinn the title names. Rubber in the materials list is the keeper. It should hold one carabiner along the dogbone so the gate faces the way you expect when you grab the draw. The card does not say bolt end or rope end. Set the draw up the way you were taught, and do not expect the listing to label the ends.

What the Hotwire Octane card is actually for

This card is one wiregate quickdraw in the Octane color, with a 12 cm dogbone and a StraitJacket on the rope end. The useful identity is the color cell, the UPC 793661400899, aluminum, D-shape, unit count 1, and the bullets. The warnings are a missing weight, a missing kilonewton rating, and a dimension cell that prints 4.72 inches twice. Wire Lock is the cell that happens to be right here. Polyester dogbone is the sling. Extended 12 cm is the bullet's way of saying this is the longer dogbone in the family, not a stubby alpine draw. The card does not print the shorter length next to it, so do not infer a second size is included. Single Draw means one.

A wiregate sheds a little weight and it can freeze or fill with mud differently from a solid gate. The card does not print a cold-weather test. It prints the gate type, correctly, in a cell the Djinn card uses incorrectly. That is the cleanest functional split between these two listings: wire versus solid, if you believe the Hotwire bullets and you do not believe the Djinn lock cell. StraitJacket is there to keep the rope-end carabiner from twisting so the gate faces out when you clip the rope. It is a clipping aid. It is not a backup knot and it is not a rating. If the rubber is torn, the card does not print a replacement part number. The draw is still a draw. The stabilizer is the convenience the bullet sells.

How to climb on them without mixing the two cards

Clip the bolt-end carabiner to the hanger and the rope-end carabiner to the rope. The Hotwire bullet tells you which end has the StraitJacket. The Djinn card does not. A 12 cm dogbone is a short sport draw. It keeps the rope closer to the bolt than an extendable draw does. On a wandering clip or a roof, a 12 cm draw can add rope drag. Neither card prints a drag diagram. If you need a longer sling, this is the wrong length on both titles. Do not daisy-chain two of these draws to invent a longer one unless you know how that changes the fall. The cards do not teach that knot.

Check the gate before you leave the ground. A wire gate should close without a bend. A solid gate should close without a sticky hinge. Wire Lock on the Djinn card will not help you remember which check to do. The object will. Read the kilonewton stamp and retire a draw you cannot read, because the listing will not backfill the number later. Weigh a Djinn if you are building a rack spreadsheet. Fifty grams is the cell. One hundred seven grams is the maker chart. Your scale is the third number, and it is the one that goes in the pack. Do not put the Hotwire in that spreadsheet at 50 grams to make the column balance.

What actually fails on these two cards

The Djinn card fails when Blue and Violet are treated as two packs. It fails when 0.05 kg is copied as the rack weight and the maker chart's 107 g is never mentioned. It fails when Wire Lock convinces a buyer the gate is a wire. It fails when the GTIN is used to order the current turquoise EAN and the colorway does not match. It fails when a kilonewton rating from a different Petzl biner is pasted into the blank. It fails when unit count 1 is read as a six-pack because quickdraws are usually sold that way. It fails when Lock is read as a locking biner.

The Hotwire card fails when 4.72 by 4.72 is read as a square sling. It fails when a missing weight is filled from the Djinn cell or from the Djinn maker chart. It fails when a missing kilonewton rating is filled from a stamp the buyer has not looked at, or from a different Hotwire length. It fails when Octane is assumed to be a flavor of rubber rather than a color name. It fails when StraitJacket is expected on the Djinn. It fails when Single Draw is ignored and a rack arrives as one sling.

What this comparison is not

This is not a fall-test report. Neither card prints one. This is not a shoe review, a belay-device review, a harness review, or a chalk review. Those are the other pieces of a gym or crag kit. This is not a price quote. Use the buttons for the live listing. This is not a six-pack. This is not a locking carabiner. This is not a claim that 50 grams is the real Djinn weight. The cell says 0.05 kg. The maker chart says 107 g. The scale decides. This is not a turquoise colorway review. The GTIN on this card is not that EAN.

So which quickdraw should you buy?

Buy the Djinn Axess if you want the 12 cm Petzl draw, a solid gate you can see, and a beginner bullet, and if you will throw out Wire Lock, weigh past the 0.05 kg cell, and look at the sling before you believe Blue or Violet. Buy the Hotwire if you want a wiregate, Octane, a 12 cm dogbone, a StraitJacket, and one UPC that matches its GTIN, and if you will throw out the squared dimension cell and accept a blank weight and a blank rating. Buy neither if you wanted a locker, a six-pack, or a kilonewton number the listing was supposed to print and did not. The gate in your hand is the decision. The cells are the warnings.

The gotyourgear film, "Petzl Djinn Axess Review Video - GotYourGear.com," shows a Djinn Axess. The title does not say violet, and it does not say 12 cm. It does not show the Black Diamond Hotwire. Use it for the Djinn gate and the dogbone. Do not use it as a reading of the 0.05 kg cell or of the Octane colorway.