On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@gmail.com> wrote: > No worries. I've done that a few times ... one of the benefits of having an > aux bat.
Thanks for the quick resonse!
> You're not "forcing" anything through the separator or relay by jumping > directly > from + to + on the batteries. Ground on the battery box/metal, not the > negative battery > terminal. > I'm sorry if this is a stupid question to follow up the original stupid question, but, aren't the negative teminals are already in contact with each other through the chassis? It seems to me that connecting the black to neg post on live battery and then to the frame is the same has having the ground strap from the aux's neg post to the frame?
> Fortunately since you're right there, you can turn the key to start, then > touch the + cable to the + terminal until your engine start then pull it > away. > Ah, yeah, I don't think I would have thought of that, thanks again. mike
> bob > > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Mike South <msouth@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have the gowesty aux battery setup in my 85 Westy AT. I think my >> starter >> battery is dying, but I just put in the aux battery and it's fine. We >> just >> had a cold snap here and the van won't start. >> >> Is it safe to start it by hooking jumper cables across from the aux >> battery >> to the starter, or will that fry the system that is keeping them isolated >> at >> all the right times, etc? >> >> mike >> > > |
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