Lemons, Mad Science, and Other Projects

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mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Suburban Dad posted:

If it makes you feel better, I once did something similar in a Miata. Battery is in the trunk in the corner and it's tiny, so a wrench or ratchet can touch both terminals simultaneously without much trouble. Except then there's trouble. It didn't do any damage but scared the poo poo out of me.

It was either this or I put the battery in backwards. It has been some years since then.

I did this just recently when changing the battery on my Fit. I installed it but then noticed that the positive terminal was still loose even after fully tightening it as it didn't get seated properly. The wrench slipped off the nut and bridged the terminals, generating lots of sparks and urine in pants. There's a mark on the wrench where it made contact but no other damage thankfully.

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mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Raluek posted:

are those IR non-contact thermometers actually accurate? i thought they made some pretty vague guesses about the emissivity of the surface you're measuring, and also average the light from a pretty wide cone, so you end up measuring your intended surface and everything around it.

It looks like OP was measuring the water temperature in the pot so it's a pretty large surface and the emissivity is very high so it's probably "good enough"

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