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Re: Battery failures?

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Originally Posted by Racer26 View Post
I've seen many teams over the years pick their batteries up by the leads. This is a dangerous practice. It causes internal stress on the tabs and can lead to failures like this. Any chance that happened here?
I'd like to think not. We teach our students that batteries are to be picked up by the case, not the leads.

Neither of the terminals on the dead battery were visibly loose or cracked, FWIW.
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