Dummy of the Month, ruined my relay board! Options

[Ian Stott]

Should have talked to my mechanic, but noooo I figured I'll just unplug the things plugged into the relay board, clean everything all up and reinstall it, well lots of smoke, evacuate the house, move cars out of the driveway to get the teener outside so I don't lose the house as well! Could see flames and of course the wife is now hysterical saying helpful things at the top of her lungs like "do something" get the battery unhooked and blow out the flames which were melted burning pieces of the relay board. Car is okay, smoke has cleared, only the relay board is damaged and now I can't get the last plug unplugged as it seems to be melted into the board, help me please! Anyway my momma said there would be days like this. Thought I would share my experience with everyone, I think it takes me out of the loop of guys you ask for help! Maybe we should have a dummy of the month same as car of the month, not trying to get the misery loves company bandwagon afloat but please tell me I'm not the only one who has fuched up!

Ian Stott
Moncton
Canada

[wingnut86]

...even removing the battery and placing it on a shelf to trickle charge can be fraught with danger.

A friend of a friend of mine ( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) )...OK, maybe my twin brother Daryl, had left a stack of the small 2X4 and 2X6 metal blocking plates that you nail into place when running plumbing/electrical through a framing stud. These little plates are ubiquitous around my house because i have OCD/Freek-a-noia, whatever...

They keep additional mistakes from happening when you try to drill through or hammer nails into the wrong place in a wall, etc. YES - GUILTY there as well.

So "this other guy", MWAH, didn't see them fall off the higher perch and land perfectly across the red and black leads on the battery (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif)

After the loud mortar shell went off, blew out the nice $59.00 charger, destroyed 3 shelves, 4 pieces of drywall, some nice trinkets my wife had stored there (hehehe) and generally caused my neighbors 2 years of their lives they will never get back...

...where was I?

Oh yeah, now I'm even more OCD and take cookies to the fire house when I drop my used oil off...

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