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    making the case for good battery terminals

    story:

    at the last minute I swapped from my bat-a-cap battery with bolt down terminals, to a stock sized battery due to my cold start settings not being good enough in the 50 degress weather (i live in FL sue me, its ****ing cold) to start before the little battery died.

    i cheaped out and used my old marine style battery terminals so I did not have to build new leads ect.

    well everything seemed fine and the terminals seemed snug. that was until my first pass at this weekends NSCRA event, where after my burnout I staged and launched only to have the car die instantly.

    after getting off the track it turns out my negative terminal jumped right off, easy fix right? nope... put it back on and get nothing but the sound of the starter turning in vain.

    alittle troubleshooting turns up my megasquirt was not booting up. there was power to the 12v lead, so I pulled apart the MS to find this:



    look between the IAC1A and IAC1B markings and you will see that the +12v lead burned right the **** off due to the voltage spike my cheap plan caused.

    in the end as you can see i made a jumper trackside and continued my day, but it very well could have been the end of the race weekend and a huge waste of money if i wasnt able to solder it back together.

    "Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
    -Thomas A. Edison

    "There is a fine line between ballin' on a budget, and dreamin' on an empty wallet."


    *Junked* 92 mx3, BP swap- milage whore, beaten up and down the east coast
    *Junked* KLZE powered 323 on Megasquirt 1
    172.60HP & 156.93 TQ with only headers and short ram intake. back under the knife for a BPT swap.
    New Daily stock 1.6L 1999 Mazda Protege LX

    #2
    i had to do that to a few people amplifiers from trying to run like .25 or .5 ohm loads draining the battery down to like 9 volts..lol.... even had to do similar to an amp ups dropped on me in shipping...lol...
    92 protege lx-

    94 protege lx-

    95 escort gt-ms2e/ms2extra pre3.3alpha5 gslender v2.8-e85-vj23@12lbs----dead--

    are you a thinker, or a believer?

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      #3
      Wow, thats ****ty. Good thing you were able to fix it.
      -Steve

      94' Protege < Worklog<SOLD!
      VF10 powered!
      262 Whp & 257 Wtq
      13.1@107

      '02 Suzuki Bandit 600s

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        #4
        Originally posted by Ace View Post
        Wow, thats ****ty. Good thing you were able to fix it.
        Ill admit it, I was sweating bullets when it wouldn't start after reconnectioning the battery terminal. I had at that point missed my first qualifying run and had already spent alittle over $150 for the weekend.
        "Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
        -Thomas A. Edison

        "There is a fine line between ballin' on a budget, and dreamin' on an empty wallet."


        *Junked* 92 mx3, BP swap- milage whore, beaten up and down the east coast
        *Junked* KLZE powered 323 on Megasquirt 1
        172.60HP & 156.93 TQ with only headers and short ram intake. back under the knife for a BPT swap.
        New Daily stock 1.6L 1999 Mazda Protege LX

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