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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>We bought a car a few months ago (an 88 jeep actually). Wasn’t running or driving, needed some work, battery was dead.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Today we finally got it running and driving using a known good battery from another car.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Set the jeep’s battery up on a charger a day or two ago and decided to try it in the jeep after all we succeeded in getting it running and driving.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hooked up the positive first, then touching the negative caused a spark!!!!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Double checked that we had the ground to the engine and the positive to the electrical system.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The multimeter, with the red on the positive terminal and the black on the negative, read -9.97<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Reversed it and got 9.97.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Checked the good battery – no, the multimeter is not broken.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Checked the jeep’s old battery again, same results. Good battery – same results (about 12.97)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What is going on???? how is this possible? Yes, we are replacing the battery but if someone had told me this story I would have told him he must have mixed up the terminals, that its not possible.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can anyone explain this to me?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And yes, we are replacing the battery<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>