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Author:  Simple [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:34 pm ]
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Since I have had the yellow leyland I have been plagued by alternator and battery problems. When I received the car the battery was in the negative earth position (negative terminal to earth) and there it has stayed.

The other night when putting the battery back in, I put it in the wrong way. When I went to connect it up I had connected the positive to the earth and was hooking the negative when there was a large flash. I realised what I had done and changed it back. :oops:

When I put it back on the correct way there was no flash or anything.

Is this normal?

Edit: It is still drivable and ok.
Author:  J_A_M [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:49 pm ]
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ouch! my bro did that once..... :x fried his electrics! :lol:
Author:  1380 yellow devil [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:46 pm ]
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well if it still charges and all other things work all ok.
Author:  Simple [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:48 pm ]
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How do you know if a car is positive earth or negative earth?
Author:  1380 yellow devil [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:58 pm ]
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They used to say on the boot floor if it is 98% are neg earth
Author:  mini_me [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:45 pm ]
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Simon,
Normally the car is negative earth if it has an
alternator fitted.
Its a lot easier if the car is neg earth
i.e.when fitting acessories such as a radio.
I changed my 66 deluxe from pos to neg earth when
I first bought it,it only takes a few minutes.
For anyone thats interested here are the instructions
from minimania site...


www.minimania.com/articlev.cfm?displayi ... ormation&c

Felix
Author:  drmini in aust [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:28 pm ]
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If you hook it up back to front, the alternator diodes all conduct to ground and you get a BIG short. Effect on wiring is not pretty....!
Author:  FatMaserati [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:47 pm ]
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drmini in aust wrote:
If you hook it up back to front, the alternator diodes all conduct to ground and you get a BIG short. Effect on wiring is not pretty....!


I'll say... I put the battery in backwards once and fried the whole lot, including alternator, starter solenoid, ALL the fuses. It put it in backwards because I wasn't paying attention to the terminals. The newer battery I had bought had the electrodes on the opposite side of the battery, so I rotated the battery around until it was the way before (towards the lefthand side on the top). Little did I know that now the electrodes were back to front... LOL!

"What's that smoke coming from? JESUS $&@*#*@ CHRISTOPHER!!! MY CAR!!!"
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