Nope. Kenwood is a big promoter of fusing the negative lead. The reasons have already been mentioned on the list. Most, if not all of their radios, do not support traditional positive ground. I say traditional because there are now positive to negative ground converters for use to install negative ground radios in positive ground vehicles.
A competitor of ours wired a cement truck with a new Kenwood right to the battery with both leads (not fusing the negative lead). It lost the chassis ground, and the starter current went through the radio back to the battery. The radio was toast (literally). The customer went right back to us (they were talked into this trial of our competitor's service). I think the trial was a perfect demonstration, but I am biased. ;-> Joe M. Bob Underwood wrote: > > My bet would be that the black wire fuse is there for positive ground > vehicles, a vestige of times past. In that case, the black (negative) > wire is hot, and you would need the fuse there. > > Bob U. > AA6BT Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
