I was taught to connect positive first the negative when jumping a car, it even says to do this in the owners manual. Mark On Thursday, December 25, 2003, at 07:05 AM, Samuel wrote: > 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/ > > > > > > > > > >? > > > > <image.tiff> > > 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 the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > Come see all of my Photo's at my Website. http://photos.yahoo.com/snextime [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/
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