Posted by mkirsch on January 12, 2010 at 06:19:42 from (64.80.108.55):
In Reply to: Battery problem. posted by Bradford on January 10, 2010 at 17:03:12:
There is such a thing as a battery with the POS and NEG terminals reversed. These will have an "R" at the end of their designiation. There have been cases where the wrong lid has been placed on the battery.
The way the charger behaves, it sounds like you're hooking it up to the charger backwards.
The way it behaved when you hooked it in PARALLEL to the other battery (not series!), it sounds like you hooked it up backwards.
Are you actually looking at the labels on the battery, or are you just assuming you know which is which (i.e. "positive is labeled + or POS" vs. "positive is always on the right").
Get yourself a voltmeter and test the battery's voltage. Put the red probe on the post you think is positive, and the black on the negative. If the meter reads a negative voltage (or the needle moves left), you've been hooking it up backwards right along.
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