Ok, will all of this hooplah going on at BITOG with batteries, I have decided to get a Battery Tender. After much searching I have found the one I wish to purchase. I went to the store and read the back of the piece and it confuses me.
I should have written it verbatim, but I will post it how I remember then go search the web for word-for-word instructions.
The issue was how to hook a charger to a battery that is in the vehicle. It said something along the lines of clamping one of the charger's output leads to one terminal of the battery that is not connected to ground, then connect the other lead of opposite polarity to somewhere on the chassis that is away from the battery.
I figured you would either leave the connections alone on the vehicle OR disconnect the ground as we do with classics that sit or over winter storage, but disconnecting the positive???? Do you just wrap it in a towel and be careful not to touch any metal with it. I did that once on a Dodge Intrepid...I hooked the negative first then accidentally touched the positive to metal and from then on out it had an engine tick.
OK NEVERMIND.......MODERATOR please delete
they were trying to cover both positive ground and negative ground type electrical systems with the same verbiage, I suspect.
Anyway, I try to avoid even slight confusion with things like electrical...
I should have written it verbatim, but I will post it how I remember then go search the web for word-for-word instructions.
The issue was how to hook a charger to a battery that is in the vehicle. It said something along the lines of clamping one of the charger's output leads to one terminal of the battery that is not connected to ground, then connect the other lead of opposite polarity to somewhere on the chassis that is away from the battery.
I figured you would either leave the connections alone on the vehicle OR disconnect the ground as we do with classics that sit or over winter storage, but disconnecting the positive???? Do you just wrap it in a towel and be careful not to touch any metal with it. I did that once on a Dodge Intrepid...I hooked the negative first then accidentally touched the positive to metal and from then on out it had an engine tick.
OK NEVERMIND.......MODERATOR please delete
they were trying to cover both positive ground and negative ground type electrical systems with the same verbiage, I suspect.
Anyway, I try to avoid even slight confusion with things like electrical...
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