Re: Speaking of car batteries

"Lu R" <whome@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:47cfd32a$0$26271$afc38c87@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I once had to recharge a flat  beaurepaire battery and it went reverse 
>charge on me! Put it back in the car and it blew my fuses. Took it back
and 
>they seemed to not believe me til they checked the charge and then tried
to 
>blame me for reverse charging it but no freakin way did I swap poles on 
>that charger. Has anyone ever had this experience?

Cell reversal can happen with some battery types, although I've not heard
of 
it with lead acid batteries.

Generally it means the battery was very very sick before you tried to
charge 
it.