[Spridgets] Battery disconnect

[derf]

DC power for your car requires a circuit of both positive and negative.
What John said.


On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:44 AM, MICHAEL ROWE via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Instructions for working on the gauges of my Toyota say remove the
> negative battery terminal.  This makes no sense to me.  It leaves all the
> hot wires live, so if your tool grounds one of them, it will spark.
> Removing the positive terminal eliminates this possibility.
>
> Some years ago, I put in a kill switch on the ground terminal, and the car
> would continue to run when the ground was open.  It only prevented
> starting.  In fact, this is one of the electrical tests mentioned by John
> Twist.
>
> All of my cars have a disconnect knob on the positive terminal.  Do I have
> this backward?
> Michael Rowe
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