6 volt battery post melted
Hi All ! Was caught in a snow storm coming back from Florida in March. Melting snow and ice caused a short and melted the positive battery post on the house battery. There were two red cables conne...
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ROBERTSUNRUS wrote:
:) Hi, melted connections are not caused by a short; They are caused by a poor connection. A heavy load with a poor connection creates heat.
That is what I thought too, so I disconnected all the battery cables (including the chassis + & - ) and leave only the negative on the 6 v house battery, when I connect the positive (what I believe to be the generator cable it starts to smoke. there should be no load, that is why I think it is shorting and may have something to do with the boost/jump relay that I would like to test if I could find it.
