<div dir="auto">Have you confirmed that the leads are correctly connected at the multimeter?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On many modes they can be reversed.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Geo</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 7:57 PM dave <<a href="mailto:dave@ranteer.com">dave@ranteer.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-6464024122848399347WordSection1"><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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Today we finally got it running and driving using a known good battery from another car.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hooked up the positive first, then touching the negative caused a spark!!!!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Double checked that we had the ground to the engine and the positive to the electrical system.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The multimeter, with the red on the positive terminal and the black on the negative, read -9.97<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Reversed it and got 9.97.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Checked the good battery – no, the multimeter is not broken.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Checked the jeep’s old battery again, same results. Good battery – same results (about 12.97)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Can anyone explain this to me?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">And yes, we are replacing the battery<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>** <a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">triumphs@autox.team.net</a> **<br>
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