Originally Posted By: Donald
Originally Posted By: 3311
Originally Posted By: Donald
Originally Posted By: 3311
I built a 150' set of jumper cables as part of very large battery pack we made for a customer last year to jump start tanks, apc's, trucks etc... coming back from Iraq on ships. I used in these from Napa in conjuntion with NATO plugs and they were very good clamps.
http://www.napaonline.com/Catalog/CatalogItemDetail.aspx?R=BK_7825268_0006384240
I wonder how many of these vehicles burned out their alternators trying to charge up a dead battery.
Read the post you quoted. The cables were part of an industrial battery booster pack I built. The only alternator involved is the jumpstarted vehicle/equipment. There was no 150' vehcle to vehicle connections, alough it could be done, they are 24 volt systems so voltage drop is somwhat less of an issue.
My point was an alternator should not be used to recharge a dead battery only to keep it charged. So once the vehicle was started, it would try and recharge the dead battery, which would take awhile and its not designed to do, at least not on normal cars and trucks.
They don't care about alternators in this application. They just want to get the ship unloaded. It's a bit of demolition derby from what I understand.
