What does it mean when a battery charger says reverse?
Reverse Polarity is also referred to as the concept of taking a secondary battery that is completely discharged and connecting a charger to the terminals the wrong way round so that its negative terminal becomes positive and its positive terminal becomes negative.
What happens if you hook up a car charger backwards?
Your gramps is lucky, usually hooking the charger up backward tears a hole in the space-time continuum and the charger, car, and person are never heard from again. Close call. PS thank your gramps for doing that so you have that packard to work with today. If it’d kept running probably wouldn’t be around now. Sometimes bad luck turns good.
When did Grandpa hook up the battery charger?
The best guess is that in 1983, grandpa tried to charge the battery and hooked up the leads in reverse. He said, “I hooked up the battery charger, there was a big flash somewhere on the firewall, and it never ran again. I don’t know much about cars, so we just parked it in the garage”.
What happens when the battery charger is hooked up in?
On a related note, I have heard – from relatively reliable sources – that when you do have a battery go bad you can supposedly re-energize it this way. Run a small light on it to completely kill all traces of remaining juice in the battery. Then cross the polarity of the trickle-type charger on the battery (- to +, + to -) and then charge it up.
What happens if you connect the jumper cable backwards?
Car owners may accidentally connect the jumper cables in reverse order or install the battery backward, which causes the vehicle to no longer start. The purpose of this troubleshooting guide is to help answer the following questions: Hooked battery up backward now car won’t start.
What happens when you hook up a battery backwards?
Usually when the battery is connected backwards, it will short out the charging system. I recommend connecting the battery up the way it should be and start it up. Once started use a meter to check the voltage at the battery. It should be above 12.5 volts dc. If the voltage is dropping, you will need to replace the charging stator.
Your gramps is lucky, usually hooking the charger up backward tears a hole in the space-time continuum and the charger, car, and person are never heard from again. Close call. PS thank your gramps for doing that so you have that packard to work with today. If it’d kept running probably wouldn’t be around now. Sometimes bad luck turns good.
The best guess is that in 1983, grandpa tried to charge the battery and hooked up the leads in reverse. He said, “I hooked up the battery charger, there was a big flash somewhere on the firewall, and it never ran again. I don’t know much about cars, so we just parked it in the garage”.
On a related note, I have heard – from relatively reliable sources – that when you do have a battery go bad you can supposedly re-energize it this way. Run a small light on it to completely kill all traces of remaining juice in the battery. Then cross the polarity of the trickle-type charger on the battery (- to +, + to -) and then charge it up.