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opnspaces
Navigator II
May 02, 2019

Performance difference between jumper cable and Lithium pack

How is it that my standard automotive jumper cables have very thick wires and the new lithium packs use wires that are comparatively much smaller than the old style cables? Do they both do the sam...
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time2roll
Nomad
May 03, 2019
opnspaces wrote:
That makes sense, I never considered voltage drop. I always figured the cables had to be bigger for the amount of amperage being pulled for the jump.
Not just the wires. The lithium battery itself will not have voltage sag like a lead-acid battery even when maxed out on power output.

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