I have found that the best thing to use is welding cable available from
welding supply stores. As Bill notes it is a little bit more flexible than
is ideal but it sure does the job.
Michael Salter
100 (1953) #174
AHX12 (1953)
Bugeye (1961)
http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/?p=432
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From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of WILLIAM B LAWRENCE
Sent: December 14, 2008 1:21 PM
To: wlldbl@aol.com; keithbailey5@bigpond.com; healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Electric
I guess what you are asking about is the inrush current when the starter is
activated. I think that would be in the neighborhood of 150 to 200 amps, but
that is instantaneous and quickly falls back to the 50 - 60 amp range for
cranking. Any moderately sized battery cable will be adequate for this use,
but, because of the length, the larger the better. I'm running some 2 AWG
multi-strand copper that was left over from a radiology installation. No
problem with voltage drop, but it's so flexible it takes additional p-clips
to
hold it in place.Bill Lawrence> From: WLLDBL@aol.com> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008
23:30:39 -0500> To: keithbailey5@bigpond.com; Healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject:
Re: [Healeys] Electric> > Keith> > That particular amperage spec. may be
hard
to come by. 3/4" for a starter > cable> seems incredibly large. Any
standard battery-type cable should be plenty > big.> > Doug> >
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