الجمعة، 28 أكتوبر 2011

The next time you jump start your car...

... let this photo serve as a caution to be careful.  If you mix up the wires...
When you jump a car with another car, or an extra battery, you hook positive to positive, and negative to negative or to a metal part of the dead car. When you connect + to - and + to - you create a short circuit, since the electricity was not meant to travel on that path, it was meant to go through the electrical parts of the car.

The insulation on the cables melted from the heat created when the batteries shorted, the battery overheated and caught fire, the electronics may have fried, plastic fuel lines and rubber hoses melted giving more things to burn, and it's all downhill from there.
Further details (and additional impressive photos) in the thread at Reddit.

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