Then what the hell am I doing wrong?
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Vroom, baby... vroom-vroom!:drool:
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Yes, match colors. And then like anyone must do, have some other method to confirm your assumptions. So include following that battery cable to what it connects to. Find the + and - markings on the battery. Use a meter. But you must always have some separate confirming method even when only jumper starting a car. Nothing new. It goes right back to lessons learned by doing things and constantly asking why. An educated human never does something catastrophically dangerous without some separate confirmation. It's also called a parking brake. Same concept. |
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That sparking will also 'clean' the electrical contact. |
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Sick.
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Welcome to the Cellar, Kacgekcad. :D
Could you please expand on, "sick", a little? Just enough so we can figure out what you're talking about, ya know. Or, was that just the prerequisite post to spam in your second post? |
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Positive is connected first so that either + terminal does not accidentally connect to most everything else. 'Everything else' is connected to the - terminal. Firmly attaching those red clamps before making any other connection makes an accidental short less likely. Connecting to a chassis - not battery - is so that an accidental short circuit is less likely to cause a battery explosion. An explosion not due to ignited hydrogen. A battery that is shorted can get so internally hot as to explode. Why do I know? We learn this stuff from experience (mistakes). |
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I've always connected negative first on both ends. Just because I figure hooking up the ground isn't going to put any current into the cable. If I have the positives connected, and one neg, what if I drop the other end of the negative, and it touches a grounded surface? bzzt. I've never hurt myself or the battery.
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