Battery Leads Arcing
While hooking up battery leads (2000 Northern Lite) after sitting in storage for a while, I noticed the leads arc when touched to the battery terminal. Started chasing it down and with everything tur...
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It is hard to know that everything is disconnected. Many devices have power supply input filter capacitors, the inrush current to charge those, even when they are off, can be large enough to cause an arc. The output filter capacitors on the converter/charger are definitely large enough to cause an arc. The current is momentary, quite large, but diminishes to zero in an instant as the capacitors are charged. The only way to know if there is a constant drain on the battery is to measure it with a sensitive ammeter after everything is hooked up and the transients have settled down.
