[Al Skierkiewicz]

Matt,
Debris is not uncommon, I advised many teams to get a vacuum and attack the Crio and other electronic parts while in Atlanta. You are lucky that the severity of the short did not render your Crio permanently damaged. Erik has stated that the PD 24 volt power is protected by a 3 amp resetting circuit breaker in the PD. The fact that your 10 volt battery did not react the same way as other batteries just indicates you did not leave the Crio powered long enough for the breaker to trip. At 10.8 volts, the battery likely could not develop enough current to trip the breaker in the same time period as a fully charged battery.