touched positive lead to neg lead on battery!

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May 30, 2001 | 06:02 AM

1HOTMAX

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and it sparked a big flash, also it burned my chrome batt terminals. did i do any internal/ computer damage?

May 30, 2001 | 06:10 AM

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let me look in my crystal ball .. *looking*

how can we tell you that.. you will have to get new terminals fire that baby up and see

May 30, 2001 | 06:17 AM

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ahh yes...12V welding at it's finest..LOL

May 30, 2001 | 06:28 AM

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and it sparked a big flash, also it burned my chrome batt terminals. did i do any internal/ computer damage?

Hopefully not, your fuses should have saved you but you prolly blew every one of them.

May 30, 2001 | 06:29 AM

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ahh yes...12V welding at it's finest..LOL

May 30, 2001 | 10:07 AM

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Did you melt any wires? If not, and you just did it with a wrench or somethin, you're alright. The optima battery is capable of withstanding abuse like that.

May 30, 2001 | 10:45 AM

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Uh.. WHY did you attept to fry everything on your car?

i only thought that was reserved for TurboMax. mwuahaha.

May 30, 2001 | 11:39 AM

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You should be fine. Used to happen all the time when I worked at a service station. Just don't do it with a older battery with low water or BOOOOM. It is a messy explosion.