Re: Speaking of car batteries

"Jason James" <at@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Lu R" <whome@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "John Tserkezis" <jt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > Lu R wrote:
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>> >> 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?
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>
> It has happened at work when they swapped firetenders due repair of the
> normal station truck. These firetenders when parked in their garage had
a
> battery charger with a chain restraint plugged into a socket on the
truck,
> so in the event of an incident, the driver just got in and drove.
Problem
> was. the *polarity* of the charger socket on the replacement tender was
> reversed compared to the original tender.
>
> The charger was a 24v high-current thing and actually discharged the
> tender's battery, then re-charged it the other way around.
> Which is what happened to your battery.
>
> Jason
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>
thanks. Almost but not quite Jason. I didnt swap charger terminals on my 
battery. But it does prove that John T and co. know dickall about
electrical 
theory but think they can get away with crapping on me and my incident. 
Looks like John T has lost ALL if ANY cred he's got here in aus.cars. :) 
LOLOL