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Ray Dillon - 01 Sep 2006 19:52 GMT

I am 68 years old and own a Coleman/Fleetwood Niagara. I let someone borrow
my camper last year and they "killed" the battery.
I replaced the battery with an Optimum deep marine battery and just went to
re-attach the wires. There is a black cable and a white. I am assuming the
white cable connects to the positive terminal because it comes from a
connector to the system which charges the battery while you drive. The black
cable, I assume connects to the negative terminal.
My problem is that the connection at the non-terminal end of the black cable
is not connected to anything. I don't know where it was connected for
grounding. Can anyone help?

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Andrew - 01 Sep 2006 20:21 GMT

> I am 68 years old and own a Coleman/Fleetwood Niagara. I let someone borrow
> my camper last year and they "killed" the battery.
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> is not connected to anything. I don't know where it was connected for
> grounding. Can anyone help?

Sounds like a strange setup.

The ground cable can be connected to the frame of the trailer as long as
the converter is also grounded to the frame.

If everything was working before I would definately try to find where
the end of that black cable was connected to. There may a broken
connection on the frame or a broken wire in your harness.

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Bill Toth - 01 Sep 2006 20:55 GMT

The black wire is positive(+), the white is ground(-). There should a
circuit breaker on the black wire, it sounds like the wire broke off of
it. Find the white connector near where the wires come on of the frame.
follow the wires from there, you should find the other end of the black
wire with the circuit breaker.

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asadi - 02 Sep 2006 04:34 GMT

...and does this someone admit to the incident?

john

>I am 68 years old and own a Coleman/Fleetwood Niagara. I let someone borrow
>my camper last year and they "killed" the battery.
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> cable is not connected to anything. I don't know where it was connected
> for grounding. Can anyone help?

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