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If you had a 12v device that came with an Anderson plug and you ran this device with an Anderson plug to alligator clip adapter to jumper leads 2m long to battery so clip to clip to a deep cycle battery would you get much of a voltage/current drop or is there just too many other variables to consider?
Aside from being a dodgy set up, lets pretend that each clip was clean and connected as best as possible, battery in great condition, etc as a general rule would you lose much current with that set up as opposed to a straight Anderson plug to battery source?
A lot of air compressors have long leads and alligator clips , anything I get now is converted to Anderson plug but depending on wire thickness and length of run there will be some voltage drop .
Only one way to know for sure, set it up and get your multimeter and measure at all joins/connections to see
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If all the connections are OK and the wire of the Anderson to Clip Adapter is of suitable gauge for the load I would expect less than 0.1 volt drop and negligible change to current flow at the connectors.
Replacing the battery clips with ring terminals or whatever to "permanently" connect the adapter to the Battery will have pretty much the same issues anyway.
Quick check of voltage with whatever it is you have connected running so the wiring is under load will soon tell you.
If the Bat +ve / Bat -ve voltage is the same or within 0.1 volt of the plug voltage at the pins of the last Anderson or the appliance plug (whichever you can get at from the back the easiest) then all is tickety boo.
If it is slightly worse than 0.1, say 0.2 or maybe even 0.3 lower at the appliance plug that will prob be OK if the load is pulling a fair few amps.
More than 0.2 volts drop under load solely across the 2 metre adapter and andersons would be an issue I would want to fix if it was mine
Last edited by the evil twin; 5th October 2017 at 10:54 PM.
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Voltage drop is dependant on 2 things. The resistance of the circuit and the current you are drawing. If the 10 amp startup has a 1 volt drop, then the 1 amp load will only have 0.1 volt drop