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path1
Explorer
Oct 13, 2014

Battery jumper cables and terminolgy of CCA

How bad did I mess up? Was at Harbor Freight picking up some 6 ton jackstands and saw what I thought was OK deal on jumper cables. Picked up 16 feet 6 gauge "heavy duty steel clamps, cooper jaws, cc...
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BB_TX
Nomad
Oct 13, 2014
Don't know about the gauge. But CCA is copper clad aluminum.

They will probably work fine for light duty jumping. Will likely get hot if jumping something that needs lots of amps and/or for an extended time.

Here is a chart comparing ampacity of copper to CCA.

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