cycle_gator
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- Port Orchard, WA
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- Kubota L4310 GST;Case 580 CK (1968)
Guys, EE's included, It is likely the only thing smoked is the voltage regulator and alternator diodes and any other un-protected diodes. Fuses would not blow as they will pass current in either direction with equanimity. For the same reason the fusible links should not blow either. A short circuit was not created. The two poles of the battery remain isolated, the current is simply flowing in the opposite direction.
A positive ground car goes south with the battery reversed beause the generator (most of then were) tries to become a motor as it is trying to turn in the opposite direction of its design.
Now that is not to say that in the panic of realizing his error he did not cross connect, short circuit, the battery. That would have serious consequences.
A positive ground car goes south with the battery reversed beause the generator (most of then were) tries to become a motor as it is trying to turn in the opposite direction of its design.
Now that is not to say that in the panic of realizing his error he did not cross connect, short circuit, the battery. That would have serious consequences.