Thread: Jump Starting?
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Old 12-31-2012, 12:58 PM   #26
Chisel
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Originally Posted by Old Henry View Post
I highly doubt that the cables hooking those two batteries of different voltage together would last long enough to heat up the batteries. In my experience the cable heats up and starts burning off the insulation way before either battery heats up as much.
Old Henry
The jumper cables we use are home made. 4/0 welding cables 16' long with copper clamps and the batterys did get hot.
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