the wife hooked up the battery charger backwards
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the wife hooked up the battery charger backwards
so im deployed and the wife went to start my truck and it was dead. so she went ahead and tried to do the right thing and hook up the charger. well apperantly its not army proofed enough. she hooke them up backwards. now i sit here and freak out, constatnly running through my mind, what happened to my truck. just wondering.
i dont know what it could have done and i dont have a wiring diagram to see if theres diodes and other such things.
please help asap
i dont know what it could have done and i dont have a wiring diagram to see if theres diodes and other such things.
please help asap
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I understand if you have a regular charger from sears or other then alot of times they won't charge 2 batts very good, what I do is charge each one seperate untill fully charged then after I hook them both back up I will start the truck and let it run for at least 15 minutes, it basically just helps make sure the batteries are ballanced and not bucking each other. Keep in mind if one battery is bad then BOTH have to be replaced, it is cheaper in the long run because the new battery will only last as long as the old one if replaced one at a time.
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#9
Hopefully the OP's charger works similarly.
Keith
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Agreed, hopefully all it did was nothing at all. If it's a newer charger I'm sure it wouldn't work that way.
I once hooked up an optima red top backwards in my gf's escape (felt like a complete jackass that I messed up such a simple chore, talk about embarassing). That was fun. Car was 100% dead. Fried a relay. Had to have it flat towed to the dealer to have it replaced, as it was 10 degrees out in the wind and I didn't feel like tracing it down. Good times.
I once hooked up an optima red top backwards in my gf's escape (felt like a complete jackass that I messed up such a simple chore, talk about embarassing). That was fun. Car was 100% dead. Fried a relay. Had to have it flat towed to the dealer to have it replaced, as it was 10 degrees out in the wind and I didn't feel like tracing it down. Good times.