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Re: pic: Battery connector.....

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Originally Posted by Nirvash View Post
What I mean is, if your frame is 'grounded', it has the same potential of the negative terminal on the battery. No current should flow across it unless something with a positive potential is also shorted to the frame.
Agreed. Just because your chassis is grounded doesn't mean you're going to have battery melting problems. Heck, the chassis of most cars and airplanes are grounded and those batteries don't melt....well not usually (I'm looking at you lithium-ion...)
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