[Sparks333]

Quick question regarding one of the above posts:
Were you able to charge the battery back up? If not, then you may have an internal short (SLAs depend on metal plates with acid between them. If the plates short, then you have a problem, but that doesn't explain the hot breaker wires). In any case, it sounds like you had a HUGE amount of current go somewhere really fast. That's downright dangerous. One thing is niggling, though: why is it that the wires did not actually melt? It seems to me that even a somewhat discharged battery, if it were to short using the breaker wires, would fry them in a heartbeat. If the voltage levels did drop that much, then it seems semi-logical that there would be scorch marks along the path the power took to whatever circuit it seems to have made. Make sure this gets solved before competiton!

Sparks