justin_o_guy2
Serious Thumper
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What happened?
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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Well,, if it wasnt hot when you got to it it wasnt carrying a ton of current. So, it must not have been a short the whole time it was there. Initially, when it made the sparks, it was shorting the battery to ground. Had it landed where it was continuing to do that the current flow woulda had it HOT, possibly caused the battery to warp plates & POssibly short internally & make a big noise, I believe thats possible, tho, not exactly likely. MOre along the lines of not impossible, unlikely.. But if the bolt was shorting the battery out, it woulda been hot. \Id take the battery to be tested, Maybe it did get physically injured by having a high current flow./ Dont start it up w/ the battery dead & generally "uNKNOWN CONDITION" & USE THE oops,, charge system to charge it up. If you dont have a good charger, you need one, I have 2 ( ONe, the new on, on sale HF, has "start" & charge & trickle options. It charged the backhoe battery up in just a few hours after I left the key on. Ive always hadda haul that things battery for help, because the old one is just 6 amp & it wont charge it up in 2 days..& I have float chargers for each bike & the lawnmower. Owning stuff that uses a battery makes having battery maintenance tools just part of life. My load tester died. Im gonna get another one one day,, I hope.
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