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Originally Posted by DonRotolo
Students are just clueless when I ask them how much energy is stored in a battery. The FRC Battery can make a wrench glow red hot in a few seconds....just before the wrench vaporizes...unless the battery explodes, of course. In that case, picking chunks of lead and plastic from your body - all covered in concentrated sulphuric acid - will occupy your time instead of having to treat the holes from the molten steel wrench where it burned through your arm. At least it cauterizes the wound, most of the time.
Too gruesome? Try seeing happen, live and in person.
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Or live it.
Back when I was young and immortal, I was working underneath my 68 Camaro changing the starter motor.
I didn't bother to disconnect the battery first.
My metallic watch band completed the circuit and it exploded off my wrist.
Which is a good thing, because if it had not, I'd probably still be wearing pieces of it.