Re: Mutt Batteries 6TL

From: Bruce C. Beattie (bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2006 - 11:23:46 PST


Hi Stu,
If I am understanding this correctly, you have charged the battery and
then removed the
charger(although this is not necessary, since you will still get the
same symptoms). Now you are trying to attach the neg cable to the
battery and you are getting a spark.
What this means is that there is something in your wiring that is
completeing the circuit from your positive
terminal to your negative terminal. This is probably what drained your
battery.

it could be a device left connected, a ground or a short someplace in
the wiring.

Bruce MVPA 23824

Stu wrote:

>I put 2 new dry charge military batteries in my Mutt last summer. While
>Mutt stored for winter they went dead. I put a 12v charger on to one of the
>batteries, and with + cable attached to battery, I am getting sparks from
>the neg terminal when I put on the cable. Should it be doing that?
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