Electrical issue

[grm61]

You don't need to cut me any slack, I don't carry a man purse.

The battery didn't stink, it wasn't hot, there was no acid seeping out around the caps or posts, there was no voltage drop when the key was turned to start.

And yes, I have been around an exploding battery.

A guy I worked with was working on a scissor lift that was just unplugged from charging, he arced his wrench to the battery box when working on the cables, one of the batteries exploded, I helped him wash his eyes out and face off he had safety glasses on luckily, he still had marks on his face from the plastic of the battery.

Two weeks later the same guy was was trying to beat his wrench off another machine with a 2x4 after he welded it from the battery box to the battery.

They let him go.

The superintendent at a concrete place I worked at blew them up on a regular basis on haul trucks and loaders, jumping them in the winter with a welder, dangerous, you bet.

I was not giving advice on how to test a battery.

 

[GMtb42]

Love the internet where simple things get exploded into a large issue.
Have shorted countless batteries with no explosion, but I went to start a old car I had and the battery exploded in the car with hood down. Just a loud pop, nothing bone shaking or car rocking.
While not a good idea, it can be done without issue.
You can hook jumper cables and tap the ends together to see if there is spark.

 

[grsthegreat]

Love the internet where simple things get exploded into a large issue.
Have shorted countless batteries with no explosion, but I went to start a old car I had and the battery exploded in the car with hood down. Just a loud pop, nothing bone shaking or car rocking.
While not a good idea, it can be done without issue.
You can hook jumper cables and tap the ends together to see if there is spark.

i think the huge boom was from the explosion of the leaking hydrogen gas from a defective working battery. thats the same reason why you dont connect the ground wire to the ground post of a good battery when jumping a bad battery.

 

[Coyote machine]

You don't need to cut me any slack, I don't carry a man purse.

The battery didn't stink, it wasn't hot, there was no acid seeping out around the caps or posts, there was no voltage drop when the key was turned to start.

And yes, I have been around an exploding battery.

A guy I worked with was working on a scissor lift that was just unplugged from charging, he arced his wrench to the battery box when working on the cables, one of the batteries exploded, I helped him wash his eyes out and face off he had safety glasses on luckily, he still had marks on his face from the plastic of the battery.

Two weeks later the same guy was was trying to beat his wrench off another machine with a 2x4 after he welded it from the battery box to the battery.

They let him go.

The superintendent at a concrete place I worked at blew them up on a regular basis on haul trucks and loaders, jumping them in the winter with a welder, dangerous, you bet.

I was not giving advice on how to test a battery.

Man purse?! Evidently some arcane reference to real men not carrying purses?!
Anyway, You insist you were not giving advice on how to test a battery. Seems to me you were doing exactly that, by your own proven method of sniffing out bad smells, checking for acid, oh, and best of all using the proven shade tree mechanic's best method of dead shorting the posts with a wrench, a method no one with any common sense or knowledge of anything electro-mechanical in nature would ever do, or suggest someone else do either. If you don't care about your own safety fine, at least keep that aspect of your thinking from poorly influencing others who may not know better.
BTW, real men wear Kilts!

 

[powerstroke2000]

Sounds like you have two problems First your switch is bad they have been having a lot of trouble with that. Second the dead battery issue is normally cause but the turn signal flasher. The new flasher units they started using have a draw problem. I have been battling this for a while and ever one has been fixed. Kioti USA has been made a ware of the situation but can not get thru the korean brains

 

[Coyote machine]

Sounds like you have two problems First your switch is bad they have been having a lot of trouble with that. Second the dead battery issue is normally cause but the turn signal flasher. The new flasher units they started using have a draw problem. I have been battling this for a while and ever one has been fixed. Kioti USA has been made a ware of the situation but can not get thru the korean brains

I get the switch as a known piece of junk, but you're saying the hazard/turn signal relay/switch(s) are problematic and draw down battery power when the tractor sits unused? What has been the fix for this issue, aside from replacing the switch/relay?
Why would you see more than one of these?