What Would Cause A Positive Battery Terminal To Melt. The battery in the picture above accidentally had a tool or cable dropped on it. Jump to Latest Follow 1 - 6 of 6 Posts.
What would cause a positive battery terminal to melt. The biggest reason a battery terminal or connection would get hot is the connection is loose. Theres a thin film of corrosion thats formed on the clamp and battery postthat corrosion creates resistance to current flow.
That resistance creates heat and reduces the amount of.
This would include the main power cable from the starter to the positive terminal and the ground cable from the negative terminal. That would cause electrical resistance at that point voltage drop and heat. Melted positive Battery Terminal It got hot because of the voltage drop caused by the bad connection at the battery. Read rest of the answer.
