I own a permanent backup generator for my home.
Recently I had to change out the 12 volt starting battery. When doing so I failed to notice that the positive and negative terminals were physically opposite from the one that was there before.
As I'm sure that you can guess, this fried a lot of the 12 volt components.
This got me thinking/questioning, why didn't the designers add in some sort of safeguards to prevent this from occurring?
What kind of change could one make to prevent this kind of destruction? Would adding something like a diode help?
Thank you in advance for your insights!
Recently I had to change out the 12 volt starting battery. When doing so I failed to notice that the positive and negative terminals were physically opposite from the one that was there before.
As I'm sure that you can guess, this fried a lot of the 12 volt components.
This got me thinking/questioning, why didn't the designers add in some sort of safeguards to prevent this from occurring?
What kind of change could one make to prevent this kind of destruction? Would adding something like a diode help?
Thank you in advance for your insights!