Morgans wrote:


Funny that this should come up. I had my first experience with battery
explosions, this past Friday.

An associate was charging a tractor battery with a large automotive charger
at a high rate, and asked me to come over to see if I thought it was
charging well. I went to see, and it was bubbling away to beat the band.
He then reached down to check the tightness of the charger on the terminal.
All this happened so fast, and I was not able to prevent what you all know
happen next. It sparked, and let out a very surprisingly loud, BAM!!!. A
little acid splashed about, but fortunately, I wear glasses, so no great
harm was done, other than seriously ringing eardrums.

If that large of an explosion went off in a battery box, it is lucky that it
didn't completely split it open.

Sh*t. More hearing shot to hell, that I don't have to give!


Reminds me of my high-school days when two friends were doing some welding with
a oxy-acetylene torch. During a break, they decided to capture a small amount
of near-stoichiometric gas mixture in a sandwich-sized plastic bag, tie off the
end, and put a match to it ('just to see what would happen'.) I entered the
garage just as my friend was bringing the match next to the bag.

The bag instantly exploded with absolutely no smoke or residue, but with the
loudest BANG I had ever heard. All three of us walked out of the garage with
our ears ringing, temporarily unable to hear normal conversation. Nobody hurt,
and hearing came back after a few minutes, but ears still ringing even after a
half hour or so.