Re: Speaking of car batteries

"Klokmeester" <whowhere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Noddy" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Lu R" <whome@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> so I did huh? lol
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>> No, you hooked the charger up the wrong way, and ****d the battery. You

>> didn't reverse it's polarity unless you can also walk on water.
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> I tried to reverse charge a car battery just recently when I
accidentally 
> hooked the charger up the wrong way on my wireless IR security camera 
> setups battery.
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> When I walked into the shed some hours later the smell was of electrical

> smoke and the charger was so hot that the outer plastic casing was going

> soft.
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> The battery read -0.05V, and had boiled of almost half of it's water. 
> Needless to say it was ****ed.
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> Whilst the charger still works, the charge indicator LED's no longer do.
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My car battery showed NO SIGN OF DAMAGE WHATSOVER after a full nights 
charge.
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