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I think a lot of folks do not "get" the kind of instantaneous, violence a large [or even small] battery bank can deliver faster than you can even register anything happened.
In my misspent youth I was working on a forklift battery and accidentally shorted the bus bars and had the dubious honor of seeing lead terminals melt and flow away from the connections at light speed amid a thunderstorm of sparks and crackling noise. All took like a half a microsecond. Luckily I was wearing long sleeves a hat and sunglasses and no battery exploded just the sparks smoke and molten lead spewing around.
Oh, yeah the wrench was pretty much fused to the bus bars. Needless to say it destroyed the battery by melting or mostly melting off the terminals on all of them. Was not my finest moment but I learned to respect batteries from it.
Just something to think about before diving into the handling of batteries.
You Mileage May Vary.
Tom
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."--Mark Twain
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