Jump lead recommendations

[DAPPH]

I would use welding cables, then put anderson connectors on both ends, and fit your vehicles with anderson plugs. That way nobody asks to borrow them.
You can make up a croc clip->anderson converter cable for emergencies, and keep those well hidden...
I put them on everything including the lawn mower and forklift, so everything is a jump pack for everything else & I buy the chinese clone connectors and have a crimp & make the tails up to keep it cheap. You can buy premade tails but it gets more expensive if you have a few vehicles to do.

I have similar for the car & caravan , two leads in fact ,a short for the tyres on the car and an extended one to add to the car lead for pumping up the caravan whilst it's hooked up . I made a simple converter block using brass pins mounted in a Delrin block with a 5 mm separator so a 12 volt charger or small 12 volt 90 psi compressor can be clipped to it if needed .
The caravan battery is fitted with lead & 50 amp Anderson/
One of my better decisions as I can also recharge my powered wheelchair batteries if mains power is not available. When not in use everything is neatly coiled & lives along with a few other bits & bobs in a home made draw sack made out of a wrecked gazebo this includes a hard rubber ball on 12 feet of knitted lay flat nylon cord to sling under the caravan to pull the cable through to the farthest side without me bending over or crawling on the ground and two pair of rubber & cotton gloves .

 

[winchman]

Welding cable for jump leads and a Noco

 

[Matchless]

I would use welding cables, then put anderson connectors on both ends, and fit your vehicles with anderson plugs. That way nobody asks to borrow them.
You can make up a croc clip->anderson converter cable for emergencies, and keep those well hidden...
I put them on everything including the lawn mower and forklift, so everything is a jump pack for everything else & I buy the chinese clone connectors and have a crimp & make the tails up to keep it cheap. You can buy premade tails but it gets more expensive if you have a few vehicles to do.

I put an Anderson connector on my Mk1 Transit (York diesel), that was many years ago, kept the leads, always intending to fit an Anderson on whatever truck I had, even bought one but never fitted it, now my ex Tesco Iveco came with an Anderson already fitted, and I still had the jump leads, they live under the bonnet of the Iveco. No one has ever borrowed those leads.............................

 

[Keithmac]

I had a tip from someone that a cheap way to make battery cables for a car project was to buy some cheap jump leads and use the wires. So I did.

When I cut them and started stripping the insulation off I realised it was about 12mm diameter, with no more than 2mm diameter copper core……
All insulation, very little conduction.

Have a good look at the actual core size before you buy.

I did the same thing, bought a set of jump leads and was very disappointed and no point trying to make any useable cables out of it.

Copper clad aluminium cable is horrible stuff.

Bought some proper cable, (10m 4AWG) not cheap but the work to run them though the car made the decision!.

 

[badabec]

Always take a £100 deposit if someone wants to borrow them.