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I took your advice and bought 50' of the same brand of copper 2/0 wire. I really liked the flexibility of the real rubber insulation. I then crimped and soldered new ring ends on and attached the 500 amp slave cable ends. Then I made wraps of friction tape every 18" to keep the wires together...

Well, I took that advice and used the 2 gauge wire for one kickbutt set of new jumper cables. Long enough to pull behind a car along the highway to jump. Crimped and soldered to the ends that connected to the new parrot clamps I bought. Thanks for the idea of how to use that smaller cable.

Good info. Thanks.

The copper bar sounds best. Not like I can short circuit it anyway, like one can with jumper cables.

I think this means 2/0 wire. It is 3/8". Here's a pic of the lettering on the cable.

Yes. Here is a pic.

Yes, it is off ebay, and it has a 250 amp fuse. The plugs are VERY heavy built. Do you think the fuse will be heavy enough to jump with the recipient truck having dead batteries? It makes sense that it had an other purpose and had the end cut off then they just threw another end in with it...

It is 2/0 wire.

Here's a picture.

I hope I have this in the right forum. Mods, feel free to move it if I have it wrong. Anyway, I picked up a set of slave cables with one end cut off and a big fuse holder inline of the positive cable on the other end. I knew about the cut end before purchasing. My question is, why was the one...