Guys,

Tonight I was replacing my fuse holder near the battery. I unplugged it from the positive (+) terminal and lay it on top of a piece cloth.

Later I accidently moved it and contacted with a piece of metal and a "spark" occurred.

Shouldn't it be a dead wire (not active)?


Tony

 

yes, and if it was live that wire would of welded it self to the metal. but it was stored power left in capacitors and other things.

 

whenever i disconnect the power wire I always wrap it in electrical tape to prevent those kind of mishaps.

 

This also means that when you go to hook it back up it will spark again to charge the caps that discharged when you shorted them to ground.... that is if they didn't all explode when shorted