did he kill my battery?

[colbystephens]

so i loaned one of my batteries from the blazer to my mentor so he could jump start his boat, and apparently he hooked up the jumpers' polarity wrong - my positive to his negative and so on... we were able to fire the boat up after that, but then on the water it died (about a mile from the dock ) and my battery then had no charge to fire his boat up again... and when we tried to jump it from someone elses boat, it wouldn't do anything. my question tho, is not about his boat, but rather...


what are the consequences to my battery from what he did?

 

[AZ79K5Project]

Did the battery get used to jump a completely dead battery and then get disconnected after turning the connections around properly?

Sounds like the boat's charging system is dead. Probably just killed the charge.

Charge it up and I would expect it to be OK unless it was drained to zero charge while running the boat.

 

[colbystephens]

Did the battery get used to jump a completely dead battery and then get disconnected after turning the connections around properly?

Sounds like the boat's charging system is dead. Probably just killed the charge.

Charge it up and I would expect it to be OK unless it was drained to zero charge while running the boat.

cool. i'll put 'er on a trickle charge tonite.

 

[abig84]

its possible. i had my starter wire fuse to the manifold before and after that it never did really hold a charge.