Electrical wire size to jump car engine

[pfjw@aol.com]

Operative terms from the OP:

"Jump"
"Typical Sedan"

Nothing about taking an hour or more to cobble some sort of device from some sort of material, that may or may not put sufficient a charge on a flat and/or dead battery (two different things) for eventual conventional starting.

So: #4 copper cable. Less/not copper is a risk. Hot metal spatter or an explode lead-acid battery, or even a series of exploded AA batteries is no fun whatsoever.

Guys and gals: Give advice as if it were to a human being that you might possibly care about. And think about that advice as you give it. What you do for yourself and with only yourself at risk is fine. When you suggest that to another, own it and 100% of the potential consequences - even the possible limitations of the recipient.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

 

[Fox's Mercantile]

On 4/12/19 9:48 AM, pfjw@aol.com wrote:
> Guys and gals: Give advice as if it were to a human being that you might possibly care about. And think about that advice as you give it. What you do for yourself and with only yourself at risk is fine. When you suggest that to another, own it and 100% of the potential consequences - even the possible limitations of the recipient.

And that video of the guy with the AA batteries is absolutely bull shit.
The key was watching him hook the string up backwards at first.


--
"I am a river to my people."
Jeff-1.0
WA6FWi
http:foxsmercantile.com

 

On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 7:03:23 AM UTC-4, pf...@aol.com wrote:
> Good cables are #4 copper.

Or with a greater diameter.

 

On Friday, 12 April 2019 15:55:26 UTC+1, Fox's Mercantile wrote:

On 4/12/19 9:48 AM, pfjw@aol.com wrote:

Guys and gals: Give advice as if it were to a human being that you might possibly care about. And think about that advice as you give it. What you do for yourself and with only yourself at risk is fine. When you suggest that to another, own it and 100% of the potential consequences - even the possible limitations of the recipient.

And that video of the guy with the AA batteries is absolutely bull shit.
The key was watching him hook the string up backwards at first.

bzzt. Again. That's normal electroboom style.

 

[Fox's Mercantile]

On 4/12/19 5:16 PM, tabbypurr@gmail.com wrote:

On Friday, 12 April 2019 15:55:26 UTC+1, Fox's Mercantile wrote:
On 4/12/19 9:48 AM, pfjw@aol.com wrote:

Guys and gals: Give advice as if it were to a human being that you might possibly care about. And think about that advice as you give it. What you do for yourself and with only yourself at risk is fine. When you suggest that to another, own it and 100% of the potential consequences - even the possible limitations of the recipient.

And that video of the guy with the AA batteries is absolutely bull shit.
The key was watching him hook the string up backwards at first.

bzzt. Again. That's normal electroboom style.

Then that just means all his other videos are suspect.

--
"I am a river to my people."
Jeff-1.0
WA6FWi
http:foxsmercantile.com

 

On Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:57:49 UTC+1, Fox's Mercantile wrote:

On 4/12/19 5:16 PM, tabbypurr wrote:
On Friday, 12 April 2019 15:55:26 UTC+1, Fox's Mercantile wrote:
On 4/12/19 9:48 AM, pfjw@aol.com wrote:

Guys and gals: Give advice as if it were to a human being that you might possibly care about. And think about that advice as you give it. What you do for yourself and with only yourself at risk is fine. When you suggest that to another, own it and 100% of the potential consequences - even the possible limitations of the recipient.

And that video of the guy with the AA batteries is absolutely bull shit.
The key was watching him hook the string up backwards at first.

bzzt. Again. That's normal electroboom style.


Then that just means all his other videos are suspect.

yawn.

 

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:57:41 -0500, Fox's Mercantile <jdangus@att.net>
wrote:

On 4/12/19 5:16 PM, tabbypurr@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, 12 April 2019 15:55:26 UTC+1, Fox's Mercantile wrote:
On 4/12/19 9:48 AM, pfjw@aol.com wrote:

Guys and gals: Give advice as if it were to a human being that you might possibly care about. And think about that advice as you give it. What you do for yourself and with only yourself at risk is fine. When you suggest that to another, own it and 100% of the potential consequences - even the possible limitations of the recipient.

And that video of the guy with the AA batteries is absolutely bull shit.
The key was watching him hook the string up backwards at first.

bzzt. Again. That's normal electroboom style.


Then that just means all his other videos are suspect.

Electroboom likes to poke fun at all the youtube videos that show
impossible stuff. Like perpetual motion videos. I'm sure what you saw
was tongue in cheek.
Eric