Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
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Originally Posted by gadget
I had BSA that was positive earth, not 100% sure of the reason why it was wired that way tbh, I was once told that super tankers were wired positive earth in order to keep crustaceans/ barnacles to a minimum from sticking to the Hull!
Don't know if it's true and never felt the need to look it up but interesting theory. Perhaps BSA thought it might keep the rust at bay! ... clearly didn't work.
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They did find that vehicles where the positive battery terminal was earthed to the body that vehicles rusted a lot more, so that is the reason given for changing the grounding to the negative of battery to bodywork. Electrons flow from negative to positive while conventional flow is nominated as from positive to negative ( they originally thought positive ions were responsible for electrical flow, and they did flow from positive to negative ) ,in electrical flow the ions don't move, it is the holes the electrons leave behind in valency band when they move that flow from positive to negative - maybe with positive earthed the 'holes' flowed into the vehicle bodywork 
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Last edited by SV650rules; 27-05-21 at 08:06 AM.
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