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Subject: [Healeys] Re - Radio, changing from positive ground to negative ground?
From: hypercubic at yahoo.co.uk (mike brooks)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:43:12 +0000 (UTC)
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  On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 at 10:25 pm, mike brooks<hypercubic at yahoo.co.uk> 
wrote:   All you need is a 12volt DC to 24 volt DC converter with at least 
enough amps for the radio. MGAguru has a great article on this for which here 
is a link
http://mgaguru.com/mgtech/electric/et207.htm

In brief, the negative earth radio will have its case bolted to the car 
structure as normal. The case will be at +12volt. Providing +24 volts on the 
live wire then provides a voltage difference of +12 volts between the live wire 
and earth. So the radio gets its 12 volts in the correct sense, while the radio 
doesn't need to be isolated from the car chassis.

There's a choice of converters on ebay.
The reason the old "converters" made noises is that they would have used an 
oscillator to alternate the DC to AC before transforming and rectifying. Modern 
devices are solid state and will be silent.

Rgds
Mike Brooks'56 BN2Scotland



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