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Dave Plowman (News)
 
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In article ,
satellite_jim wrote:
I actually have some experience with backwards batteries. I grew up in
my fathers auto repair shop in the sixties. Back then if you hooked up
the jumper cables to a generator equipped car you could start the car
and the generator would reverse polarity and you could go on your merry
way with a positive ground American car.


I don't see how, as the cutout wouldn't pull in. That only happened when
the generator started producing more than battery volts which it couldn't
when reverse connected.

One way to instantly polarize the dynamo was to flick the cutout in
manually.

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