[olddog]

Argess
I never considered changing the location. You make some good points. I will say, it came in handy this evening, as I left the lights on today at work, and it made jumping it much easier. That reminds me, I better go out and open the trunk after charging a dead battery in it. Thanks

767Jockey
Most of my experiance has been in industry not cars. When you have dissimilar metals connected and pass large quantities of current through them bad things can happen. In my cars case, I had copper electrons, cast iron electrons, and steel electrons all flowing through each other. It can lead to corrosion, and change metals in other ways. Sometimes it causes cracking and other strange things. On top of that steel is not a good conductor of electricity like copper is.