Boatmanswife
Cadet
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2011
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- 15
Somedays I think I excell at dumb. As some of you know, I have a late 1970's Starcraft Starfish Pontoon. I have been having some electrical issues, the most recent with the gas gauge. I've received some excellent answers here to that question, thank you.
Here is the thing, when I hook the battery up, I have three red wires, that go to the positive terminal and two black wires to the ground post, quite straightforward. But...there is another fairly heavy gauge wire that is black, I assume would be a ground, except at the connection point it has a red "band" around the wire, that confuses me, is it positive or negative? I think hooking it up wrong may be blowing fuses leading to some of my other wiring problems like the gas gauge issue. I have experimented with trying it on both posts, which of course has lead to problems. Does anyone know if that wire is positive or negative?
Here is the thing, when I hook the battery up, I have three red wires, that go to the positive terminal and two black wires to the ground post, quite straightforward. But...there is another fairly heavy gauge wire that is black, I assume would be a ground, except at the connection point it has a red "band" around the wire, that confuses me, is it positive or negative? I think hooking it up wrong may be blowing fuses leading to some of my other wiring problems like the gas gauge issue. I have experimented with trying it on both posts, which of course has lead to problems. Does anyone know if that wire is positive or negative?