Dead battery

[ediddy]

Can you jump a venture with jumper cables hooked to an automobile battery?

[Freebird]

Yes you can. No problem at all. Most people would recommend that the car not be running though.

[Yammer Dan]

  Freebird said:

Yes you can. No problem at all. Most people would recommend that the car not be running though.

 

 

 

I make a small set of jumpers for the bikes. Just use one of those 6 or 9 ft extenison cords you can get for a couple bucks at Dollar Stores cut off ends and put electrical clips on them. I just feel better not throwing all that juice to a bike system. I may not be right in this but I don't think that small cord would carry enough to hurt system.

[Sylvester]

12 volts is 12 volts and that is all. You can get it anyway you want. Get a bunch of D cell batteries it you want. Amps are something different and Freebird was right with don't run the engine.

 

[davecb]

  Sylvester said:

12 volts is 12 volts and that is all. You can get it anyway you want. Get a bunch of D cell batteries it you want. Amps are something different and Freebird was right with don't run the engine.

 

 

Also:

 

It is best to hook up the ground cable to the bike itself...Not the battery...

[Yammer Dan]

I thought the heavier the cables the more amps they carried.

[Sylvester]

  Yammer Dan said:

I thought the heavier the cables the more amps they carried.

 

 

Dead on Y D, but you don't want the high charge rate of the car alternator. That is why I just use the car battery without the engine running.

 

[Yammer Dan]

Not the 1st time I've been told I was wrong.