Re: Speaking of car batteries

"Lu R" <whome@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "John Tserkezis" <jt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> Blue Heeler wrote:
>>
>>> You imagined it.
>>
>>> NiFe cells can do the polarity reversal thing under certain
conditions,
>>> but no NiFe cell has ever been used in a car, and Beaurepaire have
>>> *never* made or sold NiFe cells.
>>
>>  You can actually reverse charge a lead acid.  However, there are
certain 
>> stipulations that must be adhered to for this to happen.  Minor things 
>> like a specially configured power supply, a lot of time, a bit of
water, 
>> you have to know what you're doing, and lack of a brain.  All at the
same 
>> time.
>>
>>  The more likely reason is he switched the red and black leads (it's
easy 
>> to get them wrong, they're only colour-coded) when connecting back into

>> his car.
>
> You idiot. The battery only SITS ONE WAY in the car and its IMPOSSIBLE
to 
> cross the cables. Next ****wit assumption?

It was the wrong battery, or incorrectly labelled or incorrectly
assembled.

"it switched polarity" is as likely as the second coming of christ.