excal battery connector polarity?

CAUTION I'm under the impression if you connect it wrong you fry motherboard.

Updownup said:

CAUTION I'm under the impression if you connect it wrong you fry motherboard.

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Amen! Too That!!

I did it a few years ago while talking on the phone. It blew out a trace which I was able to fix but it could have been a lot worse..

Brown is + (Pos)

Blue is - (Neg)

OBN said:

Brown is + (Pos)

Blue is - (Neg)

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thanks... i think i got it figured out in my head anyway.. i traced from inside the battery. .. the 9volt style battery clip i assume is just like a normal 9volt battery in that the smaller round piece is positive and hooks to the black wire inside of the battery pod which will continue on to the brown wire inside the control pod thus completing the positive side..... the negative side is the red wire inside of the battery pod which will continue onto the blue wire inside of the control pod...

bootyhound said:

Is the battery plug on the excal polarity specific,

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YES IT ISdon't make that mistake and cook your machine.

Well, i traced and retraced the battery wires and put everything back together and wouldn't ya know it!!! I turn it on and NOTHING!! I do this like 5x....hmmm, so i break out the meter to do some troubleshooting.... i take endcaps off , leave excal turned off , hook up the battery, put + probe of meter on b+ terminal and - onto - terminal on motherboard and get a reading of -12.6 vdc.. when i swap the meter probes i get +12.6vdc... hmmm... so all i did was swapped the long and short screw on the battery plug which basically swapped the plug prongs as they were now flipped 180 degrees , reassembled, turned it on and by some miracle everything worked as it should... the re epoxying of the broken off battery strain relief on the endcap worked well too... so it only took me 3 days to do a coil swap ..lol... i dont know how much guys are paying people for excal repairs but from my experience it aint enough..lol.. now if only the ice would melt ... happy hunting...