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Re: Pos eart and tools

To: "lherault" <lherault@bu.edu>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Pos eart and tools
From: Trevor Jordan <tjordan@vic.bigpond.net.au>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:59:04 +1000
At 6:09 AM +1000 16/7/99, lherault wrote:
>I'm guessing Pos. earth had something to do with electrical practice current
>(no pun intended) when automobiles were being developed.  I wonder if
>telegraphs were set up with positive earth?

But if it were simply an arbitrary choice of positive earth, and there are
no particular advantages in either arrangement, then why did we
subsequently go to the trouble of changing to negative earth?

Trevor Jordan
74 TR6 CF29281U

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