[Healeys] Electric

WILLIAM B LAWRENCE ynotink at msn.com
Sun Dec 14 11:20:41 MST 2008


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 at aol.com> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008
23:30:39 -0500> To: keithbailey5 at bigpond.com; Healeys at 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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