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Author:  DonWebb [ Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Electrical Polarity

Why is my car different?

In starting the restoration and learning about the car and it’s eccentricities I have noticed that all the electrical drawings I see in the DB Club News and in the “Mechanics Instruction Manual” I have show the battery hooked up with a positive ground system.
In hooking up the battery to my 1922 Dodge I find that it is wired for a negative ground system. Can you tell me what the story is with my car being different?

my Dodge is a 1922 touring # 655117 made in early 1922.

Author:  Guest [ Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Electrical Polarity

My books show positive ground,You can hook it up positive ground and look at you amp gauge if it shows neg on the gauge just reverse the wires at the gauge

Author:  Guest [ Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Electrical Polarity

The easy way to remember the differance is where the horn button is located from the factory. On the door it's positive ground, on the steering wheel it's negative, from what I know.

Author:  DonWebb [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Electrical Polarity

The horn button has long been gone so I don't know where it was originally. When the ignition switch is turned on, the needle deflects left towards discharge and when the car is running the gauge deflects to the right to charging.
Will this make any difference in it's performance?

Author:  Guest [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Electrical Polarity

No,If you don't have a button in the center of the steering wheel or a place for it '
it would have been on the door.

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