split charger relay

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split charger relay

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wired up my split charger today and seems to be working fine.
The thing is i found the relay in my box of bits and wacked it on but having looked at the diagram on wiki ive noticed my earth wire is different.
The diagram on the side of my relay is showing 85 as the feed and 86 as the earth, so thats the way ive wired it up.
Now the way i see it is the relay is nothing but two seperate switch's so it shouldn't matter which way the current flows through the switch.
86 +85 become live which activates the magnetic coil, which in turn makes a connection between 30+87.
So although my relay seems to be back to front i think all is well ? :?

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Re: split charger relay

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The relay will work connected either way round unless it is fitted with a surge diode then it must be connected the right way.
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