Re: Charging a battery backwards

Posted by Andy Martin on July 06, 2007 at 16:13:19 from (216.150.108.117):

In Reply to: Re: Charging a battery backwards posted by Lanse on July 06, 2007 at 14:49:10:

And in my experience, you don't have much experience. I have inadvertently reversed charged a battery, at least twice in the last 40 years and have never ruined the cables or starter. One of the batteries was probably no good anyway but the other one charged back up just fine and ran for a few years.

The problem in guessing your posts on this board is that there are folks here who do have experience and are not shy at pointing out your inexperience if you are being obnoxious about it. Your professional advice that the plates could be "messed up" have no technical basis.

By the same token, those with experience try not to embarrass those without experience because if someone makes fun of you for asking what they think is a stupid question, then you quit asking and may damage a tractor or get hurt.

The only stupid question is the one that is not asked, and the only one who mkes no mistakes is the one who does nothing. I am a registered professional mechanical engineer, I really farm with letter series Farmalls and I have hooked batteries up backwards (in a hurry, post on the opposite side from normal, and several M's with positive and negative ground). In fact I have made lots of mistakes farming and engineering but it is persistence that gets the job done, not perfection.

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• Re: Charging a battery backwards John T 19:48:00 07/06/07 (0)

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