New Battery cooked wiring

[HAULN-SS]

I was trying to get my SS started today, to pull it out for a wash. Got in the car, and it was completely dead..no lights no nothing.

Hooked up the charger, put it on 75A, got in the car to turn the ignition, and got a rapid fire "click click click click." Internet tells me this is a bad connection possibly from battery to starter, causing an (internal?) starter relay to clock back and forth because its not getting enough juice.

So I clean the terminals, hook the charger back up - same result.

At this point i test the battery, and see it's making 11.x volts. I decided maybe it was too dead to even be jumped. Had a marine battery sitting around with LESS Amps/CCA. Had the negative side hooked up, and went to the put the positive side on, and the lead going from my positive cable to the alternator cooked and burned in two.

What are the odds the rest of my electrical is cooked? And any ideas why this happened? I guess something completed a circuit in the whole thing?

[Senor_Taylor]

You do negative first, then positive? I've always done the opposite to avoid arcing like that.

[HAULN-SS]

Hmm..you know that felt funny when I was typing it. Guess I had a brain fart after being on vacation for 10 days

[Senor_Taylor]

Who knows, that might not actually be the problem. Just something I noticed.

[HAULN-SS]

Got the car started again..nothing seems fried, but I haven't hooked the alternator back up yet. Had the battery on charge overnight and got it to 13.x volts. I think it was just too dead to be jumped