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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

4. Insulate electrical connections. At the top of the list, the battery, always, all the time. Metallic objects dropped onto the terminals of the battery can weld themselves in place. This includes neck chains, bracelets, tools, aluminum robot parts and the legs on the table in your pit.

Students are just clueless when I ask them how much energy is stored in a battery. The FRC Battery can make a wrench glow red hot in a few seconds....just before the wrench vaporizes...unless the battery explodes, of course. In that case, picking chunks of lead and plastic from your body - all covered in concentrated sulphuric acid - will occupy your time instead of having to treat the holes from the molten steel wrench where it burned through your arm. At least it cauterizes the wound, most of the time.

Too gruesome? Try seeing happen, live and in person.


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