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Re: Battery Smoke

How to avoid battery accidents:

1. Insulate all battery terminals.
2. Insulate your tools. A good idea I just had is to use insulating shrink tubing on the shanks of all of your screwdrivers, or any other tool with a long conductive shank. I think of this because I remembered and incident where the terminal clips where being tightened with a long screwdriver (for more torque) and crossed the positive and negative terinals.
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