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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BFL13 wrote:
When cut, you can see their many silky thin strands instead of a few heavy copper strands, so they are very flexible. Each of the zillion thin strands is al with cu on the outside.
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I thought that the electricity was carried on the outer surface, if so what is wrong with copper clad for this purpose. and the surfaces of a zillion strands would be more than that of only a quadraseptillion larger cu strands.
bumpy
