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Originally Posted by curious1
Yes,
Short is not a good things.
However you have fuse for short circuit inside battery (covered in black case) this fuse is for 30A if I remember correct.
You have additional few POLY-FUSES on board - these fuses can connect again if the current through them decreased the fuse level
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That big fuse will work when the terminals short circuit.
But you had Opened the battery casing, there's no protection on the battery block itself, and it's too easy to mistakenly short the battery's nickel plate. lucky Segway's Saphion Lithium Technology provided by Valence will not explode nor it will start a fire by itself, but the thermal runaway will generate huge amount of heat, and it will cause train reaction with the nearby cell block due to the heat, object around the and under the whole cell block might encounter up to 1500F (18650 metal casing appear red).....
Fuse is to protect someone place a metal object into the terminal, that's all.