MACHTECH
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I disconnected my battery cables to remove the batteries to charge them. I didn't pay attention to which wire went where. I have 2 red cables and 2 black (with no markings). I assumed they went to the batteries red to pos and black to neg. Had aft battery all hooked up to both terminals. Had forward battery neg hooked up. When I went to install pos terminal I got a big arch. Manual says batteries are supposed to be hooked up in parallel with a jumper cable going from aft positive to forward neg terminal. I had no jumper cable when I disconnected the cables in the first place. It said that would give a 24 volt boost to everything verses a 12 volt. Do the red cables go to different things? Next time out to the boat (when it gets cooler) I going to see if the red cables go to different places. I hope I didn't fry anything with that quick arching which scared the crap out of me down in there with the gas tank!! Can anybody shed any light on to my dilemma ?? Red cables go to box on the aft engine room bulkhead.
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