RE: [alfa] Battery Disconnect

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I'd suspect it's just 'cause the ground is connected straight to the
> body... please someone correct/elaborate me?
>
> -Ben Kaupp, Santa Cruz CA
> '78 Spider (jealous again and blowing fuses out of spite, see
> below) '72 Raleigh Superbe (coming soon)
>
> On Jun 11, 2004, at 8:00 AM, drm wrote:
>
> > I've read a few places that when welding on a vehicle, one should
> > disconnect the GROUND battery terminal.
> > I'm no electrical whiz, but it would seem to me that it wouldn't make
> > any difference which battery terminal was removed.
> > Anybody have a clue?

Ben is correct.

If you disconnect the positive terminal first, and the wrench hits something
that's grounded, sparks will fly.  If you hit ground while disconnecting
ground, no sparks.

Once ground is disconnected, you can screw up all you want while
disconnecting the positive lead.

HTH,

bs
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