There is never a convenient time for your battery to fail. Very often, you left something on that ran down your battery. You have to be careful that your truck and doors are closed tightly. If your battery is defective and not just run down, you aren’t going to be able to jump start it. If it is just run down, you should be able to jump it.

Jump starting your car battery means providing it enough power to get the ignition working. Once the engine is turned on, you do not require alternate power supplies. The engine can maintain its own power, and this will be enough to get you to your destination.

We use an alternate battery pack or a battery from another vehicle to jump-start a dead battery. You will require jump-start cables. These cables are high-grade wires with large crocodile clips at their ends. These cables can withstand the large amount of power that is required to jump your car. They are usually color-coded as black and red, denoting the battery’s two different terminals, negative and positive.

The first thing while trying to jump-start your car battery is to identify the terminals on your battery. All the batteries have two different terminals, marked positive and negative.

Once you have identified the terminals on your car battery, identify the terminals on the other vehicle as well. This information is crucial to the process.
Park the two cars close enough to easily connect the two batteries using the jump start cable. However, do maintain a distance. The maximum cable length should be utilized to avoid any sort of capacitive shock. Moreover, the two cars should not be touching at any cost. This can lead to current leakage being bypassed through one car into another, which can cause shocks.

Turn off the engines of both the cars and take out the keys from the ignition. This is a preventive measure to avoid any uncertain accident.

Once all this is done, it is time to connect the two batteries together. The convention is to connect the negative terminals using the black wire and the positive terminals using the red wire. This convention is derived from basic electrical engineering practices where these colors represent the two terminals. It is critical that you connect the negative terminal to another negative terminal and the positive terminal to the other positive terminal. While connecting these cables, also make sure that once you have clamped the wire to one end, the other end of the wire does not get in contact with anything else. Place these terminals ensuring all the safety hazards. Wearing rubber gloves is an added safety measure.

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