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<blockquote data-quote="EdMuse" data-source="post: 1276327" data-attributes="member: 564149">A quick search turned up:<a href="http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/circuits/u9l1a.html" target="_blank">http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/circuits/u9l1a.html</a>Somewhere in this site, right next to an illustration of electron flow from a battery through a bulb back to the battery, from + to -, is the quote&quot;...Similar reasoning would lead one to conclude that the movement of positive charge through the wires from the positive terminal to the negative terminal would occur naturally.&quot;That said, my explanation of positive gound circuitry might actually be utter bull.&nbsp; I&#039;m an amateur physics buff, but I&#039;m a musician and educator by trade, and electronics is not my strongest suit.&nbsp; Within the past five minutes or so, I&#039;ve come to the concept that a positive gound system might involve the positive terminal of the battery being the high potential terminal, and so the electron flow would be attracted to it.&nbsp; Now I&#039;ll admit to not being as sure as I was a few minutes ago, but I can confirm it as true that negative ground is the way most, if not all cars have been made for about the last forty years, and my understanding is that if you put negative ground components into positive ground cars, or vice versa, without being very careful about how they are hooked up, they will fry, and quickly.&nbsp; Since my stereo is still working after two years, it can&#039;t be the issue.-EdM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EdMuse, post: 1276327, member: 564149"] A quick search turned up: [URL="http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/circuits/u9l1a.html"]http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/circuits/u9l1a.html[/URL] Somewhere in this site, right next to an illustration of electron flow from a battery through a bulb back to the battery, from + to -, is the quote "...Similar reasoning would lead one to conclude that the movement of positive charge through the wires from the positive terminal to the negative terminal would occur naturally." That said, my explanation of positive gound circuitry might actually be utter bull. I'm an amateur physics buff, but I'm a musician and educator by trade, and electronics is not my strongest suit. Within the past five minutes or so, I've come to the concept that a positive gound system might involve the positive terminal of the battery being the high potential terminal, and so the electron flow would be attracted to it. Now I'll admit to not being as sure as I was a few minutes ago, but I can confirm it as true that negative ground is the way most, if not all cars have been made for about the last forty years, and my understanding is that if you put negative ground components into positive ground cars, or vice versa, without being very careful about how they are hooked up, they will fry, and quickly. Since my stereo is still working after two years, it can't be the issue. -EdM. [/QUOTE]

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