Public Service Announcement. Battery Safety.

[Tobit]

I grabbed these screen shots from a Utoob vid.

Flame or sparks don't mix well with hydrogen gas.  Beavis and Butthead would know better than to try this.

Crank it up.


Engine starts, flame shoots from header.


The instant you know you effed up.


Battery volcano.


Be safe.  Always wear eye protection and put the cigs or cigars way out of reach when working around batteries.

Tobit

[Arizona Wayne]

Thought this was another  BLOWOUT prices spam. 

[canuguzzi]

Why you should buy AGM batteries. There is no reported thermal overloads with AGm and no fluid. If you have fluid filled batteries, get rid of them, no advantages to them other than saving a few measly dollars.

[bigbikerrick]

Is this a risk also with AGM or other "sealed" type batteries, or only the old style with caps/vents?  Imagine having that "battery volcano" under your ass in a motorcycle application!   
Rick.

[Lannis]

Several years ago, I was trying to sort out a starting problem on my Ferguson 35 tractor.  The engine would just barely turn over.   I charged up the battery good and tried it, and it would just rattle the solenoid. 

I thought it might be a bad terminal connection.  Sometimes, if there's a bad connection, you can see a little spark jump from the terminal to the positive battery clamp, so I bent down close to the battery and pushed the starter.  ::)

I found myself sitting on my rear end about 6 feet from the tractor, completely deaf, my glasses broken and gone somewhere, and myself all wet.  The battery had exploded, just disappeared, leaving the lead posts hanging from the cables and a few rubber and lead shards about.  :o

I had the presence of mind to run the 50 yards to the house and hose myself down throroughly from the yard hydrant.  The glasses had kept the acid out of my eyes, mostly, and a good flush with water took care of the rest.  My T-shirt and jeans fell completely off of me as I was hosing myself down, in pieces from the acid.  ::(

I do NOT crouch over a battery under load any more, and I put charging clamps on and off at arms length ....

Lannis

[bigbikerrick]

Several years ago, I was trying to sort out a starting problem on my Ferguson 35 tractor.  The engine would just barely turn over.   I charged up the battery good and tried it, and it would just rattle the solenoid. 

I thought it might be a bad terminal connection.  Sometimes, if there's a bad connection, you can see a little spark jump from the terminal to the positive battery clamp, so I bent down close to the battery and pushed the starter.  ::)

I found myself sitting on my rear end about 6 feet from the tractor, completely deaf, my glasses broken and gone somewhere, and myself all wet.  The battery had exploded, just disappeared, leaving the lead posts hanging from the cables and a few rubber and lead shards about.  :o

I had the presence of mind to run the 50 yards to the house and hose myself down throroughly from the yard hydrant.  The glasses had kept the acid out of my eyes, mostly, and a good flush with water took care of the rest.  My T-shirt and jeans fell completely off of me as I was hosing myself down, in pieces from the acid.  ::(

I do NOT crouch over a battery under load any more, and I put charging clamps on and off at arms length ....

Lannis

Inquiring minds have to know........What color was your hair after this incident?   

[canuguzzi]

I had the presence of mind to run the 50 yards to the house and hose myself down throroughly from the yard hydrant.  The glasses had kept the acid out of my eyes, mostly, and a good flush with water took care of the rest.  My T-shirt and jeans fell completely off of me as I was hosing myself down, in pieces from the acid.  ::(

Lannis

No YouTube video?