<VV> Electrical Question

[J R Read_HML]

When the battery is flat, you probably won't get much (if any) spark out of 
it.

But, you still need to determine why it discharged in the first place.
Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Gilbert" <bgilbert at redshift.bc.ca>
To: "'J R Read_HML'" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>; "'FrankCB'" <frankcb at aol.com>; 
"'Michael Kovacs'" <kovacsmj at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "'VV'" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:21 PM
Subject: RE: <VV> Electrical Question


> It's hard to believe I could make that dumb a mistake but that must be 
> what
> happened, I guess. And the only reason I didn't see sparks when I 
> connected
> the charger was because the battery had become discharged.
>
> I did some research and batteries can indeed reverse but this time it 
> looks
> like plain old "Battery Dyslexia". Still, having placed batteries on 
> charge
> probably hundreds(thousands?) of times without having this problem it's 
> hard
> to understand how I could do it now.
>
> Maybe I can blame it on the swine flu?  :-)
>
> Regards,
> Bob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J R Read_HML [mailto:hmlinc at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: May-01-09 7:47 PM
> To: Bob Gilbert; 'FrankCB'; 'Michael Kovacs'
> Cc: 'VV'
> Subject: Re: <VV> Electrical Question
>
> The charger was connected to the wrong posts?
> Later, JR
>