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Subject:Re: Can a battery terminal clamp cause a battery to discharge?
From:Allan Streib
Date:Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:06:47 -0400

mordo <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM> writes:

> I sent my wife to AA to have a suspect battery tested and likely
> replaced.  The gentleman helping her told her very seriously that
> because terminal clamps had been tightened so that the tabs were
> closed together between the bolt, that it was causing a "short
> circuit" that was draining the battery.

Nonsense.

Allan
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