paul dove wrote:
Any electrical system can burn up. All you need it to short the battery if there is no fuse or you bypass the fuse then the wire becomes the fuse and can easily catch plastic on fire
I agree... but not like that! Something was fueling that fire. Something not normally in a Powerwheels Jeep.
Unless they've changed something very recently, the Powerwheels battery already contain a fuse. There is nothing under the hood except the battery itself. The "controller" is just a pair of switches under the central "gearshift" lever. In back, there is a motor in each rear wheel. That's it.
The body is plastic with a flame retardant. It can burn, but goes out if something isn't maintaining the fire. When it burns, it melts into a gooey mess that smoulders, turns black, bubbles, and releases lots of black smoke.
Maybe this is some other brand? Or a cheap knock-off? -- "Verschlimmbessern" (German, verb) - To make something worse by trying to improve it. (English translation: "Microsoft"?) -- Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
