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| Coondog |
 Mar 15 2016, 08:16 AM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 2,089 Joined: 24-September 15 From: Apple Valley Calif Member No.: 19,195 Region Association: Southern California 
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I have read some threads about advising against jumping starting a 914 from car to car. Can someone please explain why this is not a good ideal and is it the same with putting my charger on Hi start power boast mode for 15 minutes which I have done several times. If these have the potential to harm the electrical system then would those hand held battery power boasters also have the potential to cause damage???
BTW....Now I just leave a 1.5 amp trickle charger hooked up. Hope that's ok !! |
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| Olympic 914 |
Mar 15 2016, 08:55 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,742 Joined: 7-July 11 From: Pittsburgh PA Member No.: 13,287 Region Association: North East States
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I think it may have to do with cooking your regulator. if you are jumping from a car/truck with a 85 amp regulator it can burn out your 50 amp regulator.
run into this problem with jumping a motorcycle also. What I do is, run the engine in the vehicle you are jumping from for about 5 to 10 min, to charge up the dead battery. then shut down that vehicle before attempting to start the dead vehicle. that way you are charging up the dead battery and then just using the battery in the donor vehicle and not its charging system. if it doesn't start right away, shut off the key in the dead vehicle and charge that battery again. not an electrical wizard but that method works for me. |
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Coondog Need some education Mar 15 2016, 08:16 AM
McMark I've done it all ways and never had a problem.... Mar 15 2016, 08:18 AM
jcd914
I've done it all ways and never had a problem... Mar 15 2016, 02:51 PM screenguy914 Running the engine with a discharged battery (afte... Mar 15 2016, 12:16 PM Tom_T Coondog,
Back in my decade of DD days, I did have... Mar 15 2016, 12:28 PM whitetwinturbo I'm using a "Battery Tender"........... Mar 15 2016, 12:33 PM tomrev
I'm using a "Battery Tender".......... Mar 15 2016, 12:44 PM stugray One thing to keep in mind when jumping any car fro... Mar 15 2016, 01:11 PM Coondog Lots of great info...... Thank you Mar 15 2016, 01:27 PM |
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