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<blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 7080185" data-attributes="member: 550915"><p>This premise is fundamental to the validity of your argument and, unfortunately, since it is FALSE your argument is invalid. The battery negative terminal (with the car off) and the case of the alternator (with the car running) are the points of zero potential. The chassis is merely a buss bar connecting all other negatives back to true ground. If you cannot grasp this then you are beyond help. If you don't believe me, disconnect the battery negative and see how well anything in the car works. Conversely, you could connect everything back to the battery completely eliminating the chassis from the equation and it would all work just fine but it would waste a lot of wire.</p><p></p><p>I agree that in practice, fusing the battery negative as the only protection cannot work but that isn't what you're arguing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="helotaxi, post: 7080185, member: 550915"] This premise is fundamental to the validity of your argument and, unfortunately, since it is FALSE your argument is invalid. The battery negative terminal (with the car off) and the case of the alternator (with the car running) are the points of zero potential. The chassis is merely a buss bar connecting all other negatives back to true ground. If you cannot grasp this then you are beyond help. If you don't believe me, disconnect the battery negative and see how well anything in the car works. Conversely, you could connect everything back to the battery completely eliminating the chassis from the equation and it would all work just fine but it would waste a lot of wire. I agree that in practice, fusing the battery negative as the only protection cannot work but that isn't what you're arguing. [/QUOTE]
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