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+VE earth in a car

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  • 09-01-2010 7:09pm
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    rebel.ranter
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    I know there were some UK built cars in the '70s that had a +ve earth but is a anyone aware of any current model cars with a positive earth?
    I just read a review that listed one of the cons of a device as "not suitable for a +ve earth car". Surely that is laregely irrelevant now?

    Also has anyone come a cropper because of this in the past? Just curious.
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    Owen
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    Can't think of any cars, but I did read research a few years back that said that if you did make cars positive earth, the bodywork wouldn't corrode as metal oxidising is usually as a result of negative ions.

    Could all be BS too, but it seemed interesting at the time.


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    si_guru
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    I don't know of a modern car.. I think one or two bikes have +ve earth recently.. I'll have a "google".

    I think most people converted old cars to -ve earth so they could fit and alternator.


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    Run_to_da_hills
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    Most Brit bikes up until the early 70ies were poz earth. The Japs changed this when they popularized volt with the electric start. I don't think there is anyone using this format anymore. Enfield India are all neg earth on the current Bullet Range.


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    squod
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    This was mostly the case, would you believe it's only in recent years science has discovered that electrons are the particles that move around the gaff.


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