First off, if this is not the correct section I do apologize but I felt it was the best one based off of my question. I went to remove my negative battery terminal and felt a slight charge in my hand from holding the wrench, is that normal, I never experienced that before with batteries? Also to play it safe since I am working on some wiring in my engine bay I felt safer unhooking the positive side as well. My other concern is that now that I disconnected both batteries, when I seem to touch metal, I apparently still get shocked. However, when I was working under the hood yesterday, with the battery still connected to measure voltage, I never got shocked. Is this normal or is something wrong with me, haha? Now I do have several pieces of metal surgically implanted, would that have any effect?

 

What you're feeling is most likely static electrical discharge and nothing to do with the batteries. You can hold the contacts on a car battery and feel nothing. There isn't enough voltage to push the electricity through your body. You get a static discharge just by rubbing some material and touching grounded metal. I get it all the time getting out of my car with cloth seats and touch the door metal.

 

That would be some crazy static electrical charge. It was just weird because I was just standing their next to the car and felt it has soon as I touch the socket to the battery terminal. So I just put on some gloves and a long sleeve to keep me safe.

 

ok now I am concerned. just about everything I touch that is metal I get shocked. even my gear shift inside the car. never happened before until I went to disconnect my battery. I have disconnected batteries before with not ever having any issues. I really don't know what to do know. Now I feel that I wont be able to drive my car unless I am wearing gloves. What do I do? Everything was fine yesterday, today I started fixing a couple wires that were suggested in another post that could be causing another problem I having.

 

Yep, scratch last post figured it out. Something very dumb on my part

 

Care to share how dumb? May prevent someone else from doing it too.

 

haha, good one .the metal that you and I have been put back together with are made non magnetic .non ferrous metals. I THINK its titanium.fun at airports!!

 

I would not say overly dumb, but still dumb none the less. I do not have a lot of light in my garage. So I rested one of those lamps, you know the kind that have a metal hook on it, on the small metal bar by where the hood attached to the truck release. So after I was done touch everything metal on the inside of my car I went back inside to write the concerned post. I then went back outside and just simply took the light off the hood and carefully sat in the care a lightly touched the gear shift, all went well. Touched the chasis around my radio, all went well. Then walked around to the engine and began touching everything in y engine that was shocking me. So I strongly feel that removing that hanging lamp with the metal hook from the care stopped everything. Not sure how but once I moved it no more shocks. So that's my excuse and I am sticking to it.

 

I'd check the wiring on that lamp!

 

Sure as heck never going to use it next time I work on my car. Or I will have my wife hold it. Hahaha

 

She will love you for that. not.

 

The ground on the lamp or electrical wiring in the garage may not be grounded. I would get it checked out and fixed.

 

Definitely be careful, either fix the lamp or cut the cord and throw it away! I've been electricuted so bad once I couldn't move. Stepped into a puddle that an extension cord was laying in, both my legs froze, I could feel the shock all the way up to my thighs, I leaned forward and literally fell out of the puddle. Something like that really wakes you up to be more alert and safe about what you're doing.

 

I was once shocked removing my battery, now I remove the negative terminal first. Oops.

Bought myself the Summit LED work-light. No cords, metal cages, fragile glass bulbs or heat. LED's are my friend.