Greetings Sue and list--

The "little thingy" is the jumper or jumper block.
What it covers--or 'jumps' between--are pins.
I suppose the analogy is to "jumper cables" that
create a circuit between a running vehicle's live
battery and charging system to a "dead" vehicle's
battery to assist the vehicle in starting.
The jumper block complete's the circuit that the
two pins are a part of.

HTH,

Paul A. Shippert
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and I'm hovering like a fly
waiting for the windshield on the
freeway." Genesis
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> By the way, anyone know what you call that little cover fir the

> juMpers? It's hard to sound professional when you're calling pieces
> "that little thingy." (*G*)
>
> Sue Clark

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