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willie@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (william hunt) writes:
> Do not be fooled by the colors of the wires in the car, always check the
> + and - marks on the battery or use a volt meter.

	I emphatically agree that you should not rely on the color of the
wires!  A few years ago, I watched a friend miss connect some jumper cables;
fortunately nobody was seriously hurt (I did burn my hand a little tearing
the cables off) but I imagine it could have been a major disaster.  Upon
questioning my friend as to why he did such a dumb thing, he protested that
he hooked the red to the red and the black to the black; and sure enough, he
almost had.

	Turns out that one car was brand new, and had a black insulated
positive lead, and a bare copper ground strap.  Since new, clean, copper has
a reddish look, it's not to hard to see how he confused the two.  A horrible
example of human interface design, if you ask me!
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