electrical question

when replacing my battery, I hooked the positive cable first, when hooking up the ground cable there was a small spark, I shut off the master kill switch and hooked it on with no spark. I do have a radio and tape player that has memory so they are hot with ignition switch off, would that be the cause of the spark at the ground cable? I dont recall of this happening before. thanks

 

Probably the radio or some other thing that has a capacitor in it. I would not worry about it.

 

Yep, radio with a memory circut has a small draw. Will run down a battery over time without that disconnect switch.

 

Wheyou first hook the battery up there's a load on the battery, so it will spark. Perfectly normal.

 

Thanks guys, I knew it would drain the battery, but the spark kind a thru me..thanks

 

pull the fuse for the radio and tape player and see if it still does it

 

Try draining the electrical system before doing any service work on it..............