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why negative ground?

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Topic: why negative ground?

Posted By: electrostatic
Subject: why negative ground?
Date Posted: July 04, 2007 at 4:00 PM

why do automobile's use a negative "ground" versus using a positive?

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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: July 04, 2007 at 5:21 PM
Some manufacturers have used been both in the past.  Neg. ground simply became the industry standard because that's what most designers used.

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Posted By: INSTALLER_MSS
Date Posted: July 11, 2007 at 10:32 PM
austin healy cars use positive grounding

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Posted By: citrus3000psi
Date Posted: July 18, 2007 at 11:25 AM
Maybe from the shear fact most people don't know about electricity and most peolpe would assume ground = earth = safe. 


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