Originally Posted by Esinclair

Interesting that Scotty actually disconnected the positive cable first. Real NO-NO! You put yourself and your car in danger. If your wrench touches basically anything besides the positive terminal, your wrench could short the battery to ground and could get red hot if it were to "spot weld" itself to the chassis. ALWAYS remove the negative first no matter what anyone says.

Now, regarding the resistor value. Scott says to use a 1 ohm resistor and for reasons you didn't explain, you used a 1200 ohm resistor. Personally, I like the idea of using more than 1 ohm. I think 1200 ohm is probably about right so while it might take a couple extra seconds for the capacitors to drain to zero volts, I like the softer approach of using the 1200 ohm resistor. For all practical purposes, 1 ohm is not much different than simply shorting the positive and negative leads (off the battery of course)