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1. Positive and/or negative earth: Why on earth? (score: 1): Author: Flüeler Roland, FL; Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:44:35 +0100; --MimeMultipartBoundary charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks to all who responded to my question! Your answers have shed enough light into this one black box so that - at least for the time being - I dare to; /html/tigers/1999-02/msg00000.html (6,478 bytes)
2. Positive and/or negative earth: Why on earth? (score: 1): Author: Flüeler Roland, FL; Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:34:15 +0100; --MimeMultipartBoundary A preliminary remark first: I have almost no knowledge about electricity. It and its applications just belong to the great many black boxes I'm happily living with. Still, som; /html/tigers/1999-01/msg00467.html (8,846 bytes)
3. Re: Positive and/or negative earth: Why on earth? (score: 1): Author: Rande Bellman <rande@thecia.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 07:15:44 -0500; This is just the perspective from the U.S. Rootes and other British cars used positive ground(earth) electrical systems until the early 1960s. My hunch is that they switched to negative grounding to; /html/tigers/1999-01/msg00468.html (8,223 bytes)
4. Re: Positive and/or negative earth: Why on earth? (score: 1): Author: "Rich Atherton" <gumby@connectexpress.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 05:17:26 -0800; Not True!. To ad a negative grounded device in a positive grounded car, meant that the installer, had to be very careful to insulate the device completely away from the chassis of the car. My 65 Ser; /html/tigers/1999-01/msg00472.html (8,944 bytes)
5. Re: Positive and/or negative earth: Why on earth? (score: 1): Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:01:12 -0500; Virtually all US and British cars were "positive-earth" until the 1950's. US car makers changed over first, then the British. The last positive-earth cars were probably marketed in the US in '66 or '; /html/tigers/1999-01/msg00473.html (7,990 bytes)
6. Re: Positive and/or negative earth: Why on earth? (score: 1): Author: Mark Rudnicki <markr@advdata.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:48:19 -0500; I'm not an electrical engineer either, but I would venture to say that there is no advantage one way or another if an electrical circuit, or system for that matter, is positive, or negative earth gro; /html/tigers/1999-01/msg00491.html (10,684 bytes)
7. Re: Positive and/or negative earth: Why on earth? (score: 1): Author: Steve Laifman <laifman@flash.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:58:59 -0800; The 'something' that moves from the 'positive' to the 'negative' terminal is called 'current' (or 'amps'). Electrons, not caring what man's inaccurate understanding of it's nature is, merrily flows f; /html/tigers/1999-01/msg00498.html (8,776 bytes)
8. RE: Positive and/or negative earth: Why on earth? (score: 1): Author: Theo Smit <TSmit@novatel.ca>; Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:30:44 -0700; This is only slightly related to the original topic, and 'way off the deep end in terms of how relevant it is to everyday life, but... In semiconductor physics, a 'hole' is a theoretical construct us; /html/tigers/1999-01/msg00517.html (10,678 bytes)
9. Re: Positive and/or negative earth: Why on earth? (score: 1): Author: "John Crawley" <johnc@nait.ab.ca>; Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:48:09 -0700; Ground in TIGERs and in all cars is really a critical part of the electrical system. I saw an interesting little test done on my TIGER. I was having some strange intermittent problems with eletrics; /html/tigers/1999-01/msg00518.html (8,071 bytes)
10. RE: Positive and/or negative earth: Why on earth? (score: 1): Author: Bob Palmer <rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu>; Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:24:17 -0800; Theo, fellow philosophers, Sorry, I know this is getting even further afield, but way too much physics content in Theo's posting for me not to comment. Theo's comment about a hole being a "theoretica; /html/tigers/1999-01/msg00544.html (12,319 bytes)

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