What happens if you hook up a trickle charger backwards?
A battery can explode when the cables are hooked up backwards. Anyone standing near the battery when it explodes could be seriously injured. Battery explosions can cause burns, permanent disfiguration and blindness.
Can you start a car while connected to a trickle charger?
Originally Answered: Can you start a car with a battery charger connected? Yes. It won’t hurt the charger, the battery or the car.
Can a trickle charger start a fire?
The charging process can produce excess hydrogen gas, and if allowed to concentrate in an enclosed structure, an explosion or fire can occur. Make sure the ignition of the vehicle is turned off and the key is removed, and that your charger is unplugged.
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.
Can a store hook up a car battery backwards?
The store should pay to restore your car to the condition is was in before they messed up the battery installation. The position of the old battery is not material, and is no excuse for the store hooking up the + cable to the – terminal of the battery. They owe you to make it right, it was their mistake.
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.
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”.
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.
What happens when you hook up the charger cable to the battery?
When this happens, you will have to buy a replacement battery. When a battery is damaged, you need to dispose of it properly, as it could leak acid. When you connect the cables directly to the battery, it may damage the charging system in addition to the battery.
The store should pay to restore your car to the condition is was in before they messed up the battery installation. The position of the old battery is not material, and is no excuse for the store hooking up the + cable to the – terminal of the battery. They owe you to make it right, it was their mistake.
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”.