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Old 07-15-2008, 07:11 PM   #5 (permalink)
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You may want to research the idea of connecting up a fully charged battery to a near empty one. This could result in a massive current spike from one to the other.
Good point; would be the same as jump starting another car. I don't imagine it's recommended to jump start others very often... I may have to think about how often I'll need to connect the two. My hope was that I'd only do it in the instance of a freak - dead battery and on long road trips. On road trips, hopefully I'd have the big battery charged before leaving.
If I kill it, maybe the parts store will allow me to upgrade to a deep cycle battery with part of the return cost.
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