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Originally Posted by krhs_programmer
Battery terminals were insuled with heat shrink over them but the person who did it didn't do a very ggod job and it came off and thats how it could complete the curcuit. The possitive(+) terminal was the hottest of the 2 on the battery and the same for the one coming off the curcuit breaker. Where as the negative(-) was as cool as a bone. The wire was hot but not quite hot enough to melt the wires plastic coating. And yes the curcuit breaker will pop open if you hit it hard enough, well atleasr ours does which won't be very good in the competition if we get hit. And as for charging it, i don't know how they got it to charge. Because when we put it on saturday and stuck the volt meter to it the voltage dropped. But when it was charged and the volt meter was put on it, it wold rapidly drop.
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Well it sounds like this battery is going to the recycler.
The circuit breaker should not open when hit. If yours does, I would recommend replacement. We had a defective breaker this season that would open with any pressure on the red button. Opening the device showed that manufacturing had misaligned the internal parts. There are no parts that can trip open this design as there had been in the breakers from several years ago. If yours trips open with shock it is defective.