It is likely to be due to the order you connected the terminals. By connecting the positive first, your giving power to the system. When you tried to connect the negative, it caused the sparking. As a result, the electronics could have screwed up. When you disconnected and reconnected it the proper way (negative first, then positive), you arent providing power to the system until you have a complete circuit. It keeps it from sparking, and keeps other things from screwing up due to having power but not a full circuit. This is also why you connect the negative first then positive when your going to jump a car. Otherwise you would send surges thru the system when you connect the negative after the positive due to the sparks. Of course I'm sure someone is going to post showing how this is somehow wrong. Samuel Enid/Jeremiah wrote: >Ok everyone. Here is one that's not quite as crazy as my last couple of posts. > >Until I buy a battery kill switch, I have been taking the time to dettach the postitive lead to my battery every time I turn off my DeLorean. Well, last I used it was 2 days ago, and for Christmas as a unique present I wanted to give my Mom a ride in it since she had never ridden in a DeLorean yet. Well, I went to hook the battery up - first connecting the positive lead, then the negative. Using a socket wrench, I went to start turning the battery bolt on the negative side, and sparks flew all over. I don't mean one or two - I mean yellow, orange, red sparks went flying everywhere. To say the least, I was spooked, but I went on and attached the cables securely. Went to turn the car on, *click* - no start. You could hear the car turning over, but no vroom vroom. Went and tightened even more - *click* nothing. Did this about 5 more times to no avail. > >To say the least, I was irritated and went back into the house in defeat. My fiance as she konked out to sleep suggested I undo both cables and try it again. Of course, I didn't want to, and I sarcastically told her that was futile. However, I swallowed my pride and volunteered to try one more time stating "I'm not expecting any miracles". Went out and decided for fun to switch the battery bolts. I connected the negative first, then the positive. I noticed that the bolt for the positive side seemed stripped, because I would get it snug and secure, and then it would just keep turning. I had no trouble unwinding the bolt out, but it never seemed to stop turning when I would try to tighten it. Anyhoo, I turned it until I felt it was nice and snug, and sat in the driver's seat saying to myself sarcastically "Whatever..." and cranked the key. VVRROOOOOOM! - to life my car came...To say the simplest, I let my lady know she was right (something some of you might want to just get > used to right now ;) ) > >My question - what the heck happened? Did I just not ever tighten it down right the last SEVEN attempts? Did I just not get a good connection? Was my battery on its last leg? Can someone give me a tip to two to keep from establishing a channel so I don't see those sparks again..? Would the battery kill switch save me this aggravation? > >I was very happy to see my car behave, but I don't want to go through that again. > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Photos - Get your photo on the big screen in Times Square > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > >To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/ > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > _____ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Unsubscribe> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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