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Old 04-08-2009, 04:36 PM   #1090 (permalink)
bennelson
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I like the idea of hooking the connections up so that if you even TRY to plug in the one set, it unplugs the other.

Only the one battery post got fried. The next one up from it also took a hit, but there wasn't any arcing between the post and nut, so it was able to come back off again.
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