I imagine that they have already thought of this. Chances are it will have some completely different interface (ie, nothing to get a pair of cables onto). It would be clearly marked, and you'd probably have to buy special 42v only cables. But chances are they'd overcome the problem completely by either never letting the battery go too low to start the vehicle, or have a spare starting battery which has to be manually switched into the system (or switched by the processor? Hmmm...) Otherwise you have the dangers of exploding 12v batteries - something insurance companies would sue car companies for. And, of course, you'd get a crop of jumper cables which have high-current DC-DC converters on them. -Adam Ray Russell wrote: > > In a message dated 2/6/01 5:56:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, > mrjones@NORTELNETWORKS.COM writes: > > > I can see a whole new crop of problems appearing in the near future. New > > batteries will be extremely expensive, and I suspect more fragile and open > > to abuse form poor charging practices than current items. Also what happens > > when some helpful person in a 42 volt car tries to give some poor soul with > > a (12v) flat battery a jump start? Bang! > > > > Oh well, the price of progress I guess. > > > > Mike > > > > > > Please remember this the next time you look at you mechanics bill! We are > averaging 75 completely new models a year now! My current database in my shop > now contains more then 26,000 megs of data! this only represents cars and > light trucks made from 1984 to date. The subscription just to keep this thing > up to date costs us $200 a month. Never mind the new tools we buy weekly just > trying to keep pace! > > Ray Russell > General Contractor > Norfolk & Western Railroad > > Pocahontas Division > Circa 1958 > Visit The Pocahontas Website at: > Click here: Pocahontas Home > OR > http://milliron.home.sprynet.com/Pocahontas/Pocahontas1.htm > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics