Modules dying when 24V vehicles are jump started

Oh yeah, just imagine one of those tipping over and leaking :-)

It was a bit scary. I saw a big white truck coming up, fast, while hearing a low-pitch loud tire squeal and the whole thing gradually turning sideways. I gave him as much room as I could without crunching the car in front of me.

Yep. I recently had one of those situations... number two in line stopped at a red light.

I hear "the sound", jerk the car over into the right-turn bay, wife barely can say, "What!" Then BAM they nail the car that was in front of me. Broad was on her cell phone... so I stopped and played the witness from hell :-) ...Jim Thompson

I was once nailed in the rear end, on I-94 in St. Paul MN. The guy came running up to me yelling something stupid about why did I stop. I simply pointed to the state snow plow stopped in front of me. So much for my brother's beetle.

In a better world, your caution label WOULD be the sufficient. Unfortunately, too many of the people doing the boosting don't care. Some of the geniuses working in the oil patch come to mind, but they are everywhere.

Screwing up the equipment is a life calling for these types. We had one of them zip-tie a bundle of data cables to a tractor drive shaft. He was fired when one of his low life buddies ratted on him.

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That is the kind of time that driving up or down steep slopes begins to look attractive.

one cheap thing to at least try is to put a giant diode across the power feeding the equipment, but backwards.

motorola mobile radios were protected (against backwards installations, but there may be more to it than just that) this way and rugged beasts.