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Re: Touching the battery posts together!!
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 4/8/2005 8 Replies

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I was told by a Beemer Tech that you should use a 5 or 10 watt 1 ohm resistor between the cables. This allows a more gradual discharge of the capacitors.

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