87camaro kid

The car has electric power when I put the key in the ignition but as soon as I attempt to crank it over, I hear a click and all the power shuts off for 30 seconds to a minute and then comes back on. Happens each time I try to start even with jumper cables connected. Battery is less than a year old so I'm not sure what the problem is. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Rolling Thunder

If this happens even with another battery/jumper cables they you probably have a bad battery connection (not necessarily at the battery but somewhere in the main power distribution). Whats happening is as soon as you turn key there's enough of a load where either the battery voltage is loaded down or there is a substantial voltage drop across a connections (leaving nothing significant for your car).

I would measure the voltage at your battery while you try to start the car. If the battery voltage drops, the load is too great for your battery/batteries (indicating maybe a bad battery, starter, or short). If the battery voltage does not drop then you have a bad connection probably at the starter or block.

sofakingdom

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Clean the batt cable connections. Both ends of ALL cables, AND the batt itself, AND whatever the ends of the cables bolt to. AND, if the cables have the bolt-on ends, take those off and clean the wires AND the connectors.

Did I mention "clean", "ends", "cables", "AND", enough?

Use baking soda and hot water, with a wire brush, as your cleaner.