I think they probably got a reverse terminal battery and didn't pay attention.
My '52 Farmall Super M was 6v positive ground. My great uncle apparently forgot
the positive ground thing, he ran it negative ground for quite awhile with the
only issue being that it wouldn't charge.
We finally
On 2023-01-19 12:54, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote:
How does that even happen?
Batteries are available with reversed posts. Optima has the 34 and
34R, for example.
But I don't believe I've ever seen anything in the 49/93/H8 class that
has the alternate terminal orientation.
And most of my
> But I’ve never seen an H8/49 with “backwards” post but maybe they’re out
> there.
Or, more likely, they were on the "if it fits in the hole" plan.
-- Jim
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True, I bought a battery for a friend’s car, proper size, and didn’t notice it
was reversed from the old one. Went to put it in and noticed that so back to
Wally for the proper unit that was $10 more, go figure. There might have been
some designation on the label, I don’t recall, but the posts
> How does that even happen?
Batteries are available with reversed posts. Optima has the 34 and 34R, for
example.
They are still clearly marked as to positive and negative, regardless, so some
degree
of stupidity was required. Just because it fits doesn't mean it's right.
Unless the
I'm not sure the correct battery size (H8) has posts that go both ways
so that is kinda weird. In any case it probably fried some modules or
maybe fuses in the power distribution. The only way to know would be to
see if something comes alive with a battery connected properly, then
scan it to
Nothing is fool-proof because the fools are so ingenious.
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