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How to charge two 6V positive earth batteries

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I stupidly left a light on in my 67 MGB. The batteries are totally discharged. I plan on buying a trickle charger tomorrow, but do I need anything out of the ordinary for 6V, and how would I hook up the leads since the earth is positive vs negative for modern cars?

Thanks for any advice.
 
Ahh, adjust the switch on the battery charger to 6 volt.

Red clip to Postive and black to neg as the bat is marked.
 
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Jack! he said "Two Six Volt Batteries" Me thinks he needs a 12 volt charger,--Keoke? ?
 
Hi Rays, Does your car have a 12Volt electrical system which uses two six volt batteries? ?--Keoke
 
Hello Steve,

as Keoke says a 12 volt battery charger is best. Simply connect the charger positive to the positive on ONE battery and the charger negative to the negative on the OTHER battery.

If you have a six volt charger either charge each battery individually or disconnect the link between the two and connect the charger positive to positive on both batteries and likewise with the negative. In electrical terms the first set up is series and the second is parallel.

Alec
 
I have two battery charges, both have 6/12 volt switchs. Will output either.

I assumed he had two 6 volt batterys and wanted to charge one, sigh, theres that assumption again.
 
If you want to charge them separately, you have to disconnect them from one aonther & do it on '6-volt' setting as Doc said...if you want to charge them both at the same time, hook the 'positive' to one of the battery's positive posts & the 'negative' to the other battery's negative post & charge on 12-volts like piman said.

Better thing to do, though, is toss them & install 1 12-volt battery!
 
I just did the switch from 2 to 1 and have 1 less worry and 1 less expense.
 
Rays said:
Keoke said:
Hi Rays, Does your car have a 12Volt electrical system which uses two six volt batteries? ?--Keoke
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