Tony Antoniou wrote:
> Take a look at your deck's installation instructions. Every single
> brand that I've read from has explicitly noted that the ground lead should
> be connected first prior to doing any other connections.
This is an entirely different situation. When fitting a deck, you want
to commonise the car body with the deck body before there is any chance
of current flowing through any of the other wires. For example, if you
connected the illumination wire first, and that somehow became live
(some idiot switches on the car lights), then connected the memory
backup wire, the memory circuitry would have almost 12V across it in the
reverse polarity, due to the illumination bulbs conducting positive 12V
to the ground side of the deck.
The original discussion was regarding connecting the battery to the car,
where accidental shorts are the only consideration when deciding which
order to connect the terminals.
-cb <- about to give up on this absolutely futile and mostly off-topic
argument
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