Positive or Negative to Battery switch

Holy crap!!!Put one on both all ready.. :)

Positive, that way there is nothing hot anywhere in case of accidental grounding...

Negative shuts off ALL loads.

Positive, depending on where installed, can still have parasitic loads (LP detector, radio/stereo) and tongue/landing gear can still be powered)


SO........
Put it where it works for you.

Theoretically, the positive is better.

In practice, either one works fine.

Bill & Kate wrote:

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Democrats put it on the positive circuit

Republicans put it on the negative circuit

Wow- you have that exactly backward ... LOL

No, that sounds right.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Democrats put it on the positive circuit

Republicans put it on the negative circuit

Wow- you have that exactly backward ... LOL

Democrats put it on the positive circuit

Republicans put it on the negative circuit

WyoTraveler wrote:

Almot wrote:
It's usually Pos.
Think of Neg as the ground, makes no sense disconnecting it when it's literally sitting on it. As the boater noted, there is more risk to make a spark if Pos remains connected. It will "work" either way, but switch on Pos is better.

Interesting. Don't those little electrons fly off the atoms and really come out of the negative terminal and go back in the positive terminal?:B Either way will work as long as the circuit is broken. Don't take this serious, just kidding

But think of the debate you could start....

An exposed switch such as a knife style I would put on the negative. Especially if in a metal box. Otherwise a standard insulated switch I recommend putting on the positive to stay with the existing conventions of switches and fuses to be on the hot lead.

Almot wrote:
It's usually Pos.
Think of Neg as the ground, makes no sense disconnecting it when it's literally sitting on it. As the boater noted, there is more risk to make a spark if Pos remains connected. It will "work" either way, but switch on Pos is better.

Interesting. Don't those little electrons fly off the atoms and really come out of the negative terminal and go back in the positive terminal?:B Either way will work as long as the circuit is broken. Don't take this serious, just kidding