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zebra50
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Initially Posted - 02/10/2004 :  16:56:08  Show Profile
I took the battery out of the boat for the winter, and now I have forgotten which cable is the ground coming from the electric panel. I am thinking that I remeber that black was the ground and to negetive. Is that correct?


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Oscar
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Response Posted - 02/10/2004 :  17:24:32  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
Red=Hot/Positive/+.....Black=Neutral/Negative/-. You got it....(You can always cheat and look under the hood of your car

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zebra50
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Response Posted - 02/11/2004 :  12:40:05  Show Profile
Oscar,thanks for the info. Way to simple ! I should have known.
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 02/11/2004 :  14:03:41  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
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I was in electronics in the Air Force. I am a high school science teacher. Electrons flow from high concentration to low concentration, i.e. to what we euphemistically call ground. Electrons have a negative charge. When I installed a DC outlet in one of my old boats I wired it according to the laws of Physics, ground is the lack of electrons; therefore positive. After I blew my RV television up someone said “look under the hood of your car”. It turns out when Cars were first being engineered they did not really understand the physics of electricity and used some terms poorly.

That is my story and I am sticking to it.
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Oscar
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Response Posted - 02/11/2004 :  16:35:41  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
You mean the Brits were right when they first started building cars with positive ground?

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