Look at the battery. If the negative '-' terminal cable goes to the frame
or to the engine, its already been converted to negative earth. Won't hurt
to make the changes outlined in TAW's web site or any other that describes
how to change over. From memory its only a one or two wires and
repolarizing the generator to make the change.
Changing polarity is about the easiest thing that you can do to your Rover
and takes about 20 minutes if you are really slow, like me. If you want to
find out how to do it and TAW's description is not clear enough for you, try
RN's tech section.
>From: Keith Tanner <keith@miata.net>
>Reply-To: lro@works.team.net
>To: lro@Works.Team.Net
>Subject: Re: LRO: Re: A puzzler.
>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 22:07:27 -0400
>
>It's got a generator (I think). It was a + earth truck from the factory. I
>was already using TeriAnn's writeup as my guide.
>
>I was preparing to convert it to - earth...but I'm wondering if someone
>already beat me to it due to what I'm looking at. So again - how could I
>tell? Therein lies my question - or perhaps I should say: "If I simply
>switch the leads on the battery, will I blow something up?". I can read a
>wiring diagram but I'm not 100% sure of how some of these things actually
>work inside. If nothing will die, I'm gonna simply turn the battery around
>and see how the truck behaves. If the charging problem goes away, then I've
>found out what's going on. If not, I'll assume it's still + earth and
>bastardize it to -.
>
>Keith Tanner and Basil the confused IIA
>------------
>Keith's page de home:
> http://keith.miata.net
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>
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