[Spridgets] Positive or negative earth

Dave G. dmg at bossig.com
Sat Feb 2 15:37:18 MST 2008


Why not just "flash" polarize the genny and reverse wire the fuel guage??
Or am I missing something - as usual....

On 2 Feb 2008 at 16:29, David Lieb wrote:

>> >> being able to charge a phone or GPS?
>> > Reversing those wires would be pretty simple. Installing a stereo or
>> > radio is a little trickier because they're normally attached to the
>> > car.
>> 
>> If I were wanting to keep my car concours (heaven forbid!), and yet
>> wanted to use that kind of device, I would probably opt to make an
>> adaptor from one of those cigar lighter splitters to swap the polarity
>> of the extended socket. OTOH, if you want to use any number of
>> aftermarket electronics, you should probably convert to negative earth
>> and install an alternator. Oops, there went your concours points ;-)
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Dave G, KK7SS
'65 MKIII Sprite, Richland, WA


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