This is why all circuits should be fused
- Thread starter Solar254
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My dad tells a story of when he was working in fleet servicing for large lorry and forklift fleets.
They put a spanner across a battery like this.
First it glowed red.
Then it glowed white.
Then it bent and split and fired bits of itself around the room.
Not quite on the scale of when they shorted an old forklift battery pack in a defunct warehouse, where they were scraping acid off the walls of the hangar-sized warehouse for days, but I was brought up by a lorry-service engineer to always be careful, not work alone on high power DC batteries, and keep a 4 x 2 handy if someone else is doing so.
The 4 x 2 was to smash your hand off the battery if you accidentally became part of the circuit while maintaining the lorry batteries.
They put a spanner across a battery like this.
First it glowed red.
Then it glowed white.
Then it bent and split and fired bits of itself around the room.
Not quite on the scale of when they shorted an old forklift battery pack in a defunct warehouse, where they were scraping acid off the walls of the hangar-sized warehouse for days, but I was brought up by a lorry-service engineer to always be careful, not work alone on high power DC batteries, and keep a 4 x 2 handy if someone else is doing so.
The 4 x 2 was to smash your hand off the battery if you accidentally became part of the circuit while maintaining the lorry batteries.
Mirlen
New Member
The last one proves you don't need fuses!
BobT
New Member
The guy standing next to the battery without apparent safety equipment ought to be eligible for a Darwin Award 
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hwy17
Anti-Solar Enthusiast
I replaced a lot of car batteries as a teenager. When I was bored I would go to the recycling pallet and use the battery claw to short the batteries and melt the terminals off. Interstate batteries were the best, I used to shake my head every time I would replace one cause if I saw an Interstate I didn't believe the battery was actually their problem, probably the alternator. Now interstate sells exide batteries at costco that don't seem as good though. The good interstates have the milky white case and green top. Black case ones are just standard quality.
