At 12:02 PM 6/2/2010, B Feddish wrote:
>end.  IIRC a starter is going to try to draw 75-85 amps so wimpy jumper
>cables are going to heat up fast and also use a lot of amps just pushing
>through wires that are to small.

Vanagons are specified for a 500 CCA battery, which is to say that at
(0C? 0F?) the battery will supply five hundred amps for thirty
seconds without dropping below (eight volts?).  Gotta go find that
ammeter...or visit the FLAPS.  The thing's forty years old and held
together with electrical tape -- it doesn't owe me anything.

Yours,
d