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Old 02-08-2018, 01:29 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Somehow I was clearer the first time than the second. Yes, I referred to 12v car jumpers initially, but when you said they were limited to 10A I looked up the device in question, and shared its statistics.

So, it would work, it would only take a hundred times as long. My family had a thirty-minute conference call during my lunch break, which I can summarize in two sentences. If I can give enough information in eighteen seconds, is that 100 times as good as taking half an hour?
The thing muddying your example is the link was to a device that doesn't have a cigarette lighter adapter. It only has alligator clips to attach to the existing car battery.

The description was inaccurate too:

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1000Ah of peak current
Amp hour is a measure of total electric flow. They meant to say 1000 A, which is a rate of electric flow. It's like the difference between measuring the rate of water flowing out of a faucet, and measuring the total volume of water collected in a bucket. If that battery had a 1000 Ah capacity, it would be far more energy dense than any other battery.
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