Sounds like famous last words to me. Anyway just to clarify I don't wish this on anyone. And no it hast happened that many times in the 25years I've been tinkering and working with high powered batteries just so by the way. I also work with 230v AC and have never had an accident there. The difference is you can't switch batteries off and nature of the lower voltage lends to temptation in taking things a little easier than when you're working with 230v AC.
Anyway good for those who work carefully and take their time - it's what I aspire to. Guess being young and over eager is what causes these things to happen right?
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I disagree... this will never happen to some of us. Some of us take enough precautions that it is very unlikely to happen. If you can't count the number of times this has happened to you, you shouldn't be doing battery work.
I consider shorting a battery to be like falling off a roof... it is not inevitable if you take appropriate precautions.
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Be glad it was a small battery. In Telephone offices with battery capacity up to 20,000 AH @ 48 volts a bolted fault could vaporize you.Leave a comment:
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Accidental short circuit!
I'm sure there are two types of people who work with large lead acid battery banks:
1) Those who have had an accidental short circuit and,
2) Those who are still going to have an accidental short circuit.
Even though this has happend to me countless times before, and after each time I vow to be more careful in future there is always a time when you are working under pressure to get a very large and cumbersome part of the wiring job done and even though you think a spanner, loose end of wire or some kind of metal object is safe from creating a closed circuit by accident somewhere in the system it inevitably happens when you least expect it to!
Fortunately this one only burnt off a chunck of a wiring stud and gave me a big fright!
Please work carefully, take breaks every 20-30 minutes when wiring batteries!!!
Regards,
D
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