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Reply #15 – June 10, 2012, 11:59:42 AM

if the battery pos cable sparks when your terminating/unterminating then your doing things backwards.

when jump starting a failed car, hook your car up first then hook up the bad car, that way all the possible sparks are on thier end, not yours.
and hooking up jumper cables, follow the same rules as hooking / unhooking a battery.

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Reply #16 – June 10, 2012, 12:59:43 PM

I've never had any issue hook uo or disconnecting the battery in a car, unless you do it backwards. I once hooked a tricle charger up backwards on a dead battery, it reversed poles, but didn't have enough juce to crank over.

Hooking up the wires wrong on the battery in the car, I fused some bad fuseable links. Replaced them from a junkyard car, started right up.

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Reply #17 – June 10, 2012, 02:33:20 PM

Quote from: TOM Renzo;391101

They showed us video of deployment if not dun correctly.

And for anyone that's never been in a wreck, seen one, or seen the aftermath, then go to youtube, type in "idiots with airbags" or something along those lines, and see for yourself what happens when they...umm, detonate.

And also, if you're driving or riding in a vehicle with front bags, sit the hell back in the seat. Busted noses hurt like a bitch.

/experience.

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Reply #18 – June 10, 2012, 06:17:22 PM

Quote from: jcassity;391932

if the battery pos cable sparks when your terminating/unterminating then your doing things backwards.

when jump starting a failed car, hook your car up first then hook up the bad car, that way all the possible sparks are on thier end, not yours.
and hooking up jumper cables, follow the same rules as hooking / unhooking a battery.

You have it backwards!!! The dead battery is gassing not the good one. Always hook up the dead car first!! And never hook the cables to the battery directly if possible. Always hook the ground to the block to keep sparks away from the dead battery as well as the good one

REMEMBER THE DEAD BATTERY IS GASSING AND ALWAYS GET HOOKED UP FIRST!!!

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Reply #19 – June 12, 2012, 01:10:01 AM

Quote from: TOM Renzo;391951

You have it backwards!!! The dead battery is gassing not the good one. Always hook up the dead car first!! And never hook the cables to the battery directly if possible. Always hook the ground to the block to keep sparks away from the dead battery as well as the good one

REMEMBER THE DEAD BATTERY IS GASSING AND ALWAYS GET HOOKED UP FIRST!!!

your backwards Tom but it really doesnt matter if "gassing" is the safety precaution your pointing to.
Your term "Gassing" is in effect sorta impossible because there is no rectifier charging the load. H2 is produced under charge conditions 99.9% of the time. You dont have hydrogen discharge from a battery that is "not" in thermal runaway.

I only say hook up to the dead car second because you want the impedence of the jumper cables to help protect your car/battery from any malfunctions that might be on thier car and as well, on thier electronics if a spark were to happen when hooking up the cables. essentially "I" would want the spark to happen on thier car and it should occure on the ground cable. I hook up my cables, then walk over and hook up the pos first then the ground on thier car.\

if someons car is not able to crank and the battery is making noise and is bulged on teh sides, im pretty sure most of us wont jump it.
a battery with sulfization causing cells to have physical continuity to neighboring plates other than the electrolyte is a matter of many factors.. this can be bandaided with a quick blast of 120vac across the Pos and Neg terminal to blow out the hairs of deposits that are causing the internal short circuit condition.
batteries will have reduced storage capacity due to deposits that physically end up touching cell to cell and plate to plate , not a big issue with VLRA batteries but in flooded cells it is common.

if someone hooks up jumper cables to a car with a battery making noise and its warm ect, let em blow themselves up, serves em right for being an idiot, jumper cables are typically 10' or less anyway so your probably gonna eat the dirt either way due to the length of your cables "GAS" or "No H2"