01-09-2015 01:24 PM
01-09-2015 02:47 PM
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
01-09-2015 02:52 PM
@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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01-09-2015 02:55 PM
In case someone hasn't heard: 9V batteries click together in series (no wires) to make bigger voltages.
01-09-2015 03:04 PM
@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.
01-09-2015 09:03 PM
Was that how she got attached to you?
Lynn
01-10-2015 03:59 PM - edited 01-10-2015 04:05 PM
@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 😄
Way back, the metall case made perfect housing for RF bugs ...
(until I learned to build them to run with a single cell ....... )
01-12-2015 12:56 PM
@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?
@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