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Trying to jump truck. Battery post started smoking. Is that because cables were rusty and if you see spark on post when hooking up is that for sure a short?

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You will almost always see a spark when hooking up cables - even clean cables.

Bad connections (like through rust) will heat up and if there's material to burn (like the rust) then smoke will be emitted.

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