Tom
While Mr. Dryman may or may not be a prick (I won't comment as I do not have
enough info to draw a judgment)
YOU are the one shot from the hip and confused the subject.
Read the first 2/3 of the first sentence of the OP
"When charging positive ground batteries, what is the correct connection,"
>From this we can deduce that the OP wants to know how to correctly connect a
battery charger to a positive ground automobile.
Five individuals answered the question correctly.
Then you come along with
"I think you are correct --- but don't try to use the car body for the
ground---use the battery neg post."
mkay do you see where you screwed the pooch yet? No? Go back and read the
OP again. When charging a POSITIVE GROUND car...
Still can't see it? OP puts neg terminal from charger on neg terminal of
battery, positive terminal to either the body or the positive terminal of
the battery (electrically the same place) Then he reads your post and moves
the positive terminal of the battery charger to the negative terminal of the
battery just like you recommended.
If the OP followed your advice he would have both the positive and negative
terminals of the battery charger attached to the negative post of the
battery. Trust me this is not the recommended method of battery charger
attachment.
Then when Mr. Dryman called you on it, you went even deeper into left field
in your rebuttal with "I was merely cautioning to not forget and stick the
negative from the donor car on the Healey body------but rather on the Healey
battery negative terminal."
Donor car? WTF? You have now confused charging a battery with jump
starting a car, and you still haven't figured out it is a positive ground
car. Furthermore you got the instructions for jump starting wrong. When
jump starting you DO connect the last connection to the body so that when
the a spark jumps from the cable to ground it does not ignite any stray H2
that might be around the top of the battery. Since battery chargers all
have either a switch or a plug that allows them to be turned off, this
caution is not necessary with a battery charger.
If I were you, I would ask Mr. Dryman for forgiveness.
$.02
Rick
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