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Re: Where did all the magic smoke go?
While I wasn't there at the time (and I'm not sure of the exact story), I know that we released the magic smoke this year. We were hooking up a battery to a board (pneumatics test board, I believe) and the member who was plugging the alligator clips had a bunch of cables in his hand...suffice it to say a black cable got put on one terminal, the end of a different cable got attached to the board, and then the first cable was attached to the other terminal...and this was one of the big batteries = lots of smoke and sparks= fused and completely useless wires. thankfully it was an old battery, and no one got hurt.
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