negative or positive ground connection on bongo ?
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negative or positive ground connection on bongo ?
HI Peeps, is it a negative ground on a bongo or positive ?
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Re: negative or positive ground connection on bongo ?
Its a negative earth if that's what you mean? Didn't know there had been any +ve earthed cars around for years
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My old 1966 Mini van was positive earth. I remember I had fun fitting a stereo because the case was akways live!mikeonb4c wrote:Its a negative earth if that's what you mean? Didn't know there had been any +ve earthed cars around for years
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Ah Yes, happy days, I don't think I owned a -ve earth car until 1997 when I gave up driving firms cars.Velocette wrote:My old 1966 Mini van was positive earth. I remember I had fun fitting a stereo because the case was akways live!mikeonb4c wrote:Its a negative earth if that's what you mean? Didn't know there had been any +ve earthed cars around for years
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Blew 2 radio cassette players in my mate's triumph herald before I discovered it was +ve earthed!
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I destroyed a few sets myself, same way
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Anything with an alternator will be neg earth.
Older dynamos can be either.
Older dynamos can be either.
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Re: negative or positive ground connection on bongo ?
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Come to think of it, when cars were positive earth...minis various, my old Standard, MG Maggot, Ford Consul convertible, amongst the many, I remember changing radios regularly...and that old +ve earth was normal...and the melting of the odd radio was, you say, a problem....rather causes me to remember...well................did I blow the odd radio......?????........NO....I always checked numerous cars had been fitted with alternate electrical systems, so it was a case of look carefully....and the coming of negative earth was always hailed as a ploy to arrest corrosion....did it make rusting less???????...did it 'ell.... ...damp + steel = RUST....ya can't change the laws of physics (or chemistry)...JIM
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Come to think of it, when cars were positive earth...minis various, my old Standard, MG Maggot, Ford Consul convertible, amongst the many, I remember changing radios regularly...and that old +ve earth was normal...and the melting of the odd radio was, you say, a problem....rather causes me to remember...well................did I blow the odd radio......?????........NO....I always checked numerous cars had been fitted with alternate electrical systems, so it was a case of look carefully....and the coming of negative earth was always hailed as a ploy to arrest corrosion....did it make rusting less???????...did it 'ell.... ...damp + steel = RUST....ya can't change the laws of physics (or chemistry)...JIM
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I never blew the radio but as I had wedged it in with bits of wood, but I do remember the odd shower of sparks if something earthed accidentally contacted it!helen&tony wrote:Hi
Come to think of it, when cars were positive earth...minis various, my old Standard, MG Maggot, Ford Consul convertible, amongst the many, I remember changing radios regularly...and that old +ve earth was normal...and the melting of the odd radio was, you say, a problem....rather causes me to remember...well................did I blow the odd radio......?????........NO....I always checked numerous cars had been fitted with alternate electrical systems, so it was a case of look carefully....and the coming of negative earth was always hailed as a ploy to arrest corrosion....did it make rusting less???????...did it 'ell.... ...damp + steel = RUST....ya can't change the laws of physics (or chemistry)...JIM
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military vehicles and most boats are + ground, helps to prevent corrosion apparently!
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That's interesting because I'm sure people told me that the reason for the change to negative earth was to do with corrosion.321Away wrote:military vehicles and most boats are + ground, helps to prevent corrosion apparently!
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Here's what t'internet says.Velocette wrote:That's interesting because I'm sure people told me that the reason for the change to negative earth was to do with corrosion.321Away wrote:military vehicles and most boats are + ground, helps to prevent corrosion apparently!
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and partly because positive earth encourages galvanic corrosion* of the surrounding bodywork - whearas with negative earth is is the much-easier-to-replace electrical contacts that corrode.
*Think back to school physics lessons with anodes and cathodes...
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I liked the bit about thinking back to Physics lessons but all I can recall is jibber jabber annodes jibber jabber jibber jabber cathodes jibber jabber and sitting on the back row dicussing how my mate was going to fit 12" extended Triumph forks to his BSA!scanner wrote:Here's what t'internet says.Velocette wrote:That's interesting because I'm sure people told me that the reason for the change to negative earth was to do with corrosion.321Away wrote:military vehicles and most boats are + ground, helps to prevent corrosion apparently!
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and partly because positive earth encourages galvanic corrosion* of the surrounding bodywork - whearas with negative earth is is the much-easier-to-replace electrical contacts that corrode.
*Think back to school physics lessons with anodes and cathodes...
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Surprised nobody has yet mentioned changing the old cars from pos to neg earth. It was very easy.
I had a Morris Traveller (how I wish I hadn't let it go for £50 in 1972) and being a radio amateur I wanted to run neg earth equipment in it.
All we had to do was reverse the battery connections and If I remember correctly the generator field winding just needed a couple of blips of the new polarity to get rid of the old residual magnetism. None of the very few electrical items which a car needed in those days was fussy about the polarity including, as far as I remember, the starter motor. I may have had to reverse the power to that to stop it cranking the engine backwards but the only thing I can definitely remember was blipping the generator or dynamo, whichever we called it.
Frank
I had a Morris Traveller (how I wish I hadn't let it go for £50 in 1972) and being a radio amateur I wanted to run neg earth equipment in it.
All we had to do was reverse the battery connections and If I remember correctly the generator field winding just needed a couple of blips of the new polarity to get rid of the old residual magnetism. None of the very few electrical items which a car needed in those days was fussy about the polarity including, as far as I remember, the starter motor. I may have had to reverse the power to that to stop it cranking the engine backwards but the only thing I can definitely remember was blipping the generator or dynamo, whichever we called it.
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Exciting it I think they used to call it?, My Mum had a Renault 4 with a dynamo and 6V electrics, I later had a 12V one . Come to think of it you can make a 6V dynamo run at 12V too it is just the regulator you have to change. You could on Bikes anyway.Diplomat wrote:Surprised nobody has yet mentioned changing the old cars from pos to neg earth. It was very easy.
I had a Morris Traveller (how I wish I hadn't let it go for £50 in 1972) and being a radio amateur I wanted to run neg earth equipment in it.
All we had to do was reverse the battery connections and If I remember correctly the generator field winding just needed a couple of blips of the new polarity to get rid of the old residual magnetism. None of the very few electrical items which a car needed in those days was fussy about the polarity including, as far as I remember, the starter motor. I may have had to reverse the power to that to stop it cranking the engine backwards but the only thing I can definitely remember was blipping the generator or dynamo, whichever we called it.
Frank
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