gksudo
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so when I was putting together my driver, I accidentally bumped my 12v battery's wires together with my elbow.
Of course, short circuits are bad, so I quickly tried to yank off the wire the instant I heard the spark. As you know, when you short circuit a lot of power, it welds the connections. Thats precisely what happened. Right as I grab the wire, all the coating on it vaporised. You can imagine by this point i'm like "OH FFFFF oh FFFFF". Pretty much XD
At this point I grab the pliers and try to rip the wire off the contact, no good, its very stuck on there(even though I merely wrapped the wires on the leads of the battery.) I decided to try and cut it with the cutters, which finally stopped all the panic.
yeah... so after all that I was left with a severe burn where I grabbed the wire. Funny how all this happened in a little over 5 seconds.
Here's what I was dealing with:
Battery:
The wire after the short:
Closer image:
Lesson to be learned? Be more careful with batteries of that size, use in-line fuses, and don't play with electricity when you are just waking up and not focused. XD
Of course, short circuits are bad, so I quickly tried to yank off the wire the instant I heard the spark. As you know, when you short circuit a lot of power, it welds the connections. Thats precisely what happened. Right as I grab the wire, all the coating on it vaporised. You can imagine by this point i'm like "OH FFFFF oh FFFFF". Pretty much XD
At this point I grab the pliers and try to rip the wire off the contact, no good, its very stuck on there(even though I merely wrapped the wires on the leads of the battery.) I decided to try and cut it with the cutters, which finally stopped all the panic.
yeah... so after all that I was left with a severe burn where I grabbed the wire. Funny how all this happened in a little over 5 seconds.
Here's what I was dealing with:
Battery:
The wire after the short:
Closer image:
Lesson to be learned? Be more careful with batteries of that size, use in-line fuses, and don't play with electricity when you are just waking up and not focused. XD