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spacebetty
Explorer
Sep 05, 2014

Need help with my sketchy battery cable situation

I was about to replace my 2 12v marine batteries with 2 6v deep cycles, when I realized the cable situation seems strange and possibly scary. But I don't know much about battery cables, so maybe it's ...
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2oldman
Explorer II
Sep 05, 2014
spacebetty wrote:
when the 2 12v batteries were hooked up, they worked with the red one on the positive terminal and the black/white one on the negative. Could they have still worked this way if what you say is true?
Only fans and pumps care about 12v polarity.

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