glocklt4
Member
I have read through the manual for my 200 sport lately while I'm adding a second battery. There are all kinds of warnings about sparks from batteries in a boat due to gas vapor build up. Since I smell a bit of the normal gas vapor around the engine since getting my boat, and the bilge blower is there to vent vapor for this purpose, it is understandable that it is more dangerous than working on a battery of a car.
So with this in mind, how are you supposed to hook up a battery after disconnecting it without a spark? I don't remember seeing one when i hooked the neg cable back up to my battery a month ago while de-winterizing, but I'm not sure that there wasn't one. Usually when working on cars, it's a big spark. Don't want to blow up the boat!
So with this in mind, how are you supposed to hook up a battery after disconnecting it without a spark? I don't remember seeing one when i hooked the neg cable back up to my battery a month ago while de-winterizing, but I'm not sure that there wasn't one. Usually when working on cars, it's a big spark. Don't want to blow up the boat!