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Thanks Charlie and root,
The whole Idea is to use a lighter cable on the run from a single battery to the engine, to save weight and expense of heavier cable. A 24V starter should also turn the engine over more robustly. The idea is to not have a complicated system of two 12V batteries in series and still only run 12V all that way. A typical 24V starter uses about 100 amps and a 12V starter uses about 200 amps. So using safe wire sizing for those amperages and total 40 ft. run, thats the difference between #2 wire and 3-0 wire. A difference of about 15 lb. Regarding one other idea, I would be leary of down sizing the battery cable to the point of getting even a 10 volt drop over the run at risk of over heating the wire. Larry |
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