Portable Solar Smoking

[Grodyman]

I inherited a NaturePower 120 Watt suitcase solar kit. Opened it up and hooked alligator clips to terminals of battery, after a short time, smoke coming from the wiring/charge controller area behind the solar panel.

What could cause this? Wire run was maybe 6 feet.

Gman

[Grodyman]

BFL13 wrote:
Reversed polarity?

Maybe, if the red and black wires are mixed up from the factory.

Also, no current going into the battery was registering on my battery monitor.

[BFL13]

Reversed polarity?