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GlueGuy 
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Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2628 |
 Topic: Trailer/Battery is positive-ground?Posted: 28 Apr 2019 at 12:33pm |
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Yah. Stuff happens. We may never know what happened here, but it sure was curious.
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bp
2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River 2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost |
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podwerkz
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Joined: 11 Mar 2019 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 966 |
Posted: 28 Apr 2019 at 1:24pm |
If they did that when the battery was healthy and fully charged, it probably damaged the converter or at least blew some fuses. The electronic control boards in things like the fridge and the furnace and water heater might be fried as well. If the battery was completely dead, and if the cells are dry, then the battery is 'open', so when it was hooked up just for a quick driveway sale, probably nothing was harmed, but nothing would work.
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r･pod 171 gone but not forgotten!
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offgrid
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Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 28 Apr 2019 at 2:14pm |
Yes, I agree. You can see from the pics that indeed the + battery terminal is connected to the white conductor, which going to the frame. So yep, I would expect that at the very least there would be open fuses in the charger circuit as those are there for reverse polarity protection. I've seen some comments on other sites that when folks have accidentally reversed the battery connections those have blown and protected everything else so maybe that's all that would happen, but that is something I don't personally ever want to find out
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1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft 2015 Rpod 179 - sold |
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ChrisSuter
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Joined: 10 Feb 2019 Location: Sacramento, CA Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
Posted: 09 Sep 2019 at 9:27am |
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Thanks for all the suggestions. We contacted the previous owner and they said they hadn't done it on purpose and hadn't made any electrical changes. We replaced the battery, hooked it up the normal way (red to positive, white ground to battery negative) and everything has worked fine. So, we're all good, just a weird thing.
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Motor7
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Joined: 09 Jan 2019 Location: E. TN Online Status: Offline Posts: 196 |
Posted: 09 Sep 2019 at 2:04pm |
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I'm stumped, how could that have not fried things on the pod?
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2016 R-Pod 176T
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp
Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6288 |
Posted: 09 Sep 2019 at 8:42pm |
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If the battery were dead when it was connected, that could explain why things weren't fried.
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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GlueGuy
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Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2628 |
Posted: 10 Sep 2019 at 10:04am |
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Yeah. That would do it. The battery was toast & whoever just connected it up to sell it.
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bp
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Trailer/Battery is positive-ground?