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I guess the two batteries were discharged differently before you started.
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I actaully saw someone try to jump start a car by taking a 12 V lead acid battery out of another car, turning it upside down and pressing the terminals against the terminals of the dead battery!

 

I do not recall if the car started but I do recall a significant amount of battery acid spalshing all around!  DO NOT try this if you value your fingers, eyes, and cars.

 

Lynn

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@johnsold wrote:

I actaully saw someone try to jump start a car by taking a 12 V lead acid battery out of another car, turning it upside down and pressing the terminals against the terminals of the dead battery!


It might be a Michigan thing, but I'd expect most cars have a set of jumper cables in the trunk.  To find two cars without cables would be rare.

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In case someone hasn't heard: 9V batteries click together in series (no wires) to make bigger voltages.

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@Hooovahh wrote:

@johnsold wrote:

I actaully saw someone try to jump start a car by taking a 12 V lead acid battery out of another car, turning it upside down and pressing the terminals against the terminals of the dead battery!


It might be a Michigan thing, but I'd expect most cars have a set of jumper cables in the trunk.  To find two cars without cables would be rare.


I take it a step further.  I have a jumper battery pack in my trunk.  Back when we were dating, my wife had a car that needed that thing every other day.


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Was that how she got attached to you?

 

Lynn

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@Todd_Lesher wrote:

In case someone hasn't heard: 9V batteries click together in series (no wires) to make bigger voltages.


Or nicly shortcut them 😄 Smiley Tongue

 

Way back, the metall case made perfect housing for RF bugs ... 

(until I learned to build them to run with a single cell ....... )

 

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@johnsold wrote:

I actaully saw someone try to jump start a car by taking a 12 V lead acid battery out of another car, turning it upside down and pressing the terminals against the terminals of the dead battery!

 

I do not recall if the car started but I do recall a significant amount of battery acid spalshing all around!  DO NOT try this if you value your fingers, eyes, and cars.

 

Lynn


Russia, perhaps? Smiley Very Happy

 


@Hooovahh wrote:

It might be a Michigan thing, but I'd expect most cars have a set of jumper cables in the trunk.  To find two cars without cables would be rare.


That's what I thought, but judging by the number of people that come straight to my desk when their car won't start, I might be the only one here with a set in the truck. 

Which works fine, except when I ride the motorcycle in.

 


@Todd_Lesher wrote:

In case someone hasn't heard: 9V batteries click together in series (no wires) to make bigger voltages.


Fun with a few 9V batteries. (244 of them)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hwLHdBTQ7s

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