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I left Friday afternoon to take my Scouts on a camp out. We hiked a mile or so Friday, camped, hiked 12 miles into the middle of nowhere Saturday, camped and then back Sunday. I had intermittent cell signal and just turned my phone off except to check text ever few hours.
One of my Scout parents has a 2005 F350 that he lets us use for far away camping trips to pull the 16 foot Scout trailer. He brought it to my house Monday, parked it and I drove him home in the M1009. Plans changed and I used the blue bomber to pull the trailer for this trip. The same parent is having a skeet shooting party at his house this coming weekend and wanted to use my clay thrower. I have it loaded in a M101 with the cover on. I decided to hook his truck up to the 101 before I left on the camp out Friday evening. I get in his truck for the first time since he turned it off Monday and the batteries are dead. As in not even a dome light glowing dead.
I locked it back up and went on the camp out planning to take care of it when I got back. I told him about it when he dropped his son off and he was fine with me charging it up enough to run again. I went into cell block out. 6 miles into the 10 mile hike back Sunday I get a text from Jennifer saying she just used the M1009 to jump start to F350 and they took it. I wrote back OK. But, what I was thinking of was, what battery did they pull power from, did they pull from both to both of the F350 batteries, did they pull from the back battery and touch the body, is the computer on the F350 now screwed up after a dose of 24V, do I even have one still functioning alternator on the M1009, etc...?
Thankfully, I had burned up a battery post a while ago and replaced that single battery with a group 31. Never getting around to replacing the smaller body battery with a group 31 as well. I had rotated the batteries a few months ago when I did an oil change and the big one was on the front. The truck owner had tried using his wife's Jetta to jump the F350. It wasn't working because he had no patience and didn't let it charge any. He luckily had left that hooked up to one of the F350 batteries and then pulled off my bigger battery thinking it would have more umph to his other battery with another set of cables. I had asked him how he hooked it up when he met us after the camp out. Once he told me, I pointed out that it could have been a big problem for both of our trucks. "Oh, Jennifer said your truck had some special system in it and that I better wait for you to get home. But, I figured one try wouldn't hurt anything and it fired my truck right up."
I nicely told Jennifer she did right telling him about the "special" charging system but she really should have used a different vehicle and to please not offer to help with the M1009 in the future unless I am there. I didn't tell here all of my fears.
How many of you read this and could see the same thing happening at your home? I never thought of this happening and didn't do anything to train her or warn her. She had just heard me talking to Colton enough about how it works to know it wasn't normal. I have talked him through how to jump a 12 volt vehicle with a CUCV and probably will her if the right situation presents itself.
Front battery only.
I know there are a lot of CUCV owners out there and wanted to pass this along to maybe help somebody.
One of my Scout parents has a 2005 F350 that he lets us use for far away camping trips to pull the 16 foot Scout trailer. He brought it to my house Monday, parked it and I drove him home in the M1009. Plans changed and I used the blue bomber to pull the trailer for this trip. The same parent is having a skeet shooting party at his house this coming weekend and wanted to use my clay thrower. I have it loaded in a M101 with the cover on. I decided to hook his truck up to the 101 before I left on the camp out Friday evening. I get in his truck for the first time since he turned it off Monday and the batteries are dead. As in not even a dome light glowing dead.
I locked it back up and went on the camp out planning to take care of it when I got back. I told him about it when he dropped his son off and he was fine with me charging it up enough to run again. I went into cell block out. 6 miles into the 10 mile hike back Sunday I get a text from Jennifer saying she just used the M1009 to jump start to F350 and they took it. I wrote back OK. But, what I was thinking of was, what battery did they pull power from, did they pull from both to both of the F350 batteries, did they pull from the back battery and touch the body, is the computer on the F350 now screwed up after a dose of 24V, do I even have one still functioning alternator on the M1009, etc...?
Thankfully, I had burned up a battery post a while ago and replaced that single battery with a group 31. Never getting around to replacing the smaller body battery with a group 31 as well. I had rotated the batteries a few months ago when I did an oil change and the big one was on the front. The truck owner had tried using his wife's Jetta to jump the F350. It wasn't working because he had no patience and didn't let it charge any. He luckily had left that hooked up to one of the F350 batteries and then pulled off my bigger battery thinking it would have more umph to his other battery with another set of cables. I had asked him how he hooked it up when he met us after the camp out. Once he told me, I pointed out that it could have been a big problem for both of our trucks. "Oh, Jennifer said your truck had some special system in it and that I better wait for you to get home. But, I figured one try wouldn't hurt anything and it fired my truck right up."
I nicely told Jennifer she did right telling him about the "special" charging system but she really should have used a different vehicle and to please not offer to help with the M1009 in the future unless I am there. I didn't tell here all of my fears.
How many of you read this and could see the same thing happening at your home? I never thought of this happening and didn't do anything to train her or warn her. She had just heard me talking to Colton enough about how it works to know it wasn't normal. I have talked him through how to jump a 12 volt vehicle with a CUCV and probably will her if the right situation presents itself.
Front battery only.
I know there are a lot of CUCV owners out there and wanted to pass this along to maybe help somebody.
