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Bobbo
Jul 24, 2014Explorer II
Huntindog wrote:
Not sure what the point is.. You had to go to the parts store to get up and running... The same as if you had 6 volts. You just would've been buying a different part.
The point is I was able to do this at home where I had a 5 mile drive to get the part, rather than in the Smokey Mountains where I would have had a 3 hour drive to get the part while DW and the grandkids were in an RV with no 12v power. I never lost any functionality. If it had been a pair of 6v batteries, the RV 12v system would have been dead in the water. That means no refrigerator or air conditioning, in June.
And, actually, it would have been the same part. A clamp on terminal to go onto the end of my 12" long 1 gauge wire.
Like I said in my original post:
Bobbo wrote:
Well, the fact I had a pair of 12v batteries in parallel rather than a pair of 6v batteries in series kept me from having a serious problem on the road.
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