Then line up your 9 volt battery, with the big (negative) battery terminal on the spring, and the positive (smaller) terminal touching the button in the center of the car charger.

Now I tape batteries the way I wear a seatbelt or put on a life jacket - as a common sense way of reducing risk. I just wish I'd learned it from an article instead of the fire in my friend's home.

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Duracell, a manufacturer of 9-volt batteries, and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, a trade group that represents battery makers, provided these tips: 1.

The transistor then switches on a second BC547, which lights an LED. The whole circuit is built on top of a battery clip so it can be run straight from the top of a standard 9 volt battery.

When a battery jumper pack is used as a memory saver, one must be very careful to not allow the disconnected positive battery cable terminal to touch vehicle metal or the negative terminal.

In one test a paper clip resting on a 9 volt battery heated up and, in about 10 minutes, had turned a Kleenex next to it brown.

In fact, a house fire in July in New Hampshire was caused by a 9-volt battery that was stored in a plastic bag with other batteries and rubbed up against them, igniting the fire.

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