I had an old Austin 1800 with positive ground- I just isolated the negative
ground radio from the chassis and ran it as negative ground. It depends on the
radio design whether you have enough room to sheath it in something like very
thin plywood.
Stephen BJ8
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> On Oct 22, 2017, at 1:38 PM, <glemon at neb.rr.com> <glemon at neb.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
> I used a polarity converter many years ago when I put a "modern" am fm
> cassette in my 67 Sprite (Pioneer KP5500, the things you remember). The
> inverter ran all the time and made a high pitched slightly audible squeal.
> After it drained my battery I added an inline switch. It also would cut out
> for a second if there were a sudden voltage change, such as tapping the brake
> lights.
>
> I messed around with the voltage regulator to try to compensate for the
> voltage drop, no help, screwed that up too.
>
> An all (many) subsequent cars I just switched polarity, much easier and never
> any problems.
>
> Greg Lemon
>
> ---- Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:
>> There are also separate radio polarity converters around.
>> Kees Oudesluijs
>>
>>
>> Op 21-10-2017 om 10:57 schreef Bob Simmen:
>>>
>>> Is there a way to change an original positive ground radio to negative
>>> ground on my BJ8?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
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