Welding with Car Batteries

GPER · 03-28-2008, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by wilson1010

Need a couple of short cables with terminal clamps and one set of long jumpers. But, that 2 guage wire is spendy!

I still have a bunch of the hot wire off of the cranes from when I worked down at Armco or AK now.

I made my jumpers out of it years ago so I could pull in behind a car and still have enough cable to reach the batteries.

highlandercj-7 · 03-28-2008, 03:29 PM

I carry a welding kit consisting of a pair of cutting goggles with a shade 10 lens, a nomex hood to protect the face, welding gloves, an assortment of electrodes and a few 1' long wires with battery terminals at each end to connect 3 car batteries, then I use my HD jumper cables to weld with. 3 batteries making 36 volts works much better to get the arc to work. We welded a coil-over mount back onto my friends bronco and it worked great.

I recommend 1/8" rods because with them amps it turned the whole thing red using 1/16" rods. We burned through 6 rods and every battery still had enough juice to run there vehicles.

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03-28-2008, 03:29 PM	#2
highlandercj-7 locked n' loaded Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Da Burgh' Posts: 22	I carry a welding kit consisting of a pair of cutting goggles with a shade 10 lens, a nomex hood to protect the face, welding gloves, an assortment of electrodes and a few 1' long wires with battery terminals at each end to connect 3 car batteries, then I use my HD jumper cables to weld with. 3 batteries making 36 volts works much better to get the arc to work. We welded a coil-over mount back onto my friends bronco and it worked great. I recommend 1/8" rods because with them amps it turned the whole thing red using 1/16" rods. We burned through 6 rods and every battery still had enough juice to run there vehicles.