# Have you seen the new Single Post Battery? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857 "2018-03-17T01:23:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/1 "2018-03-17T01:23:49Z")
Tired of having to clean and tighten 2 battery connections? Do you keep getting confused as to whether red or black is positive or negative? Maybe the answer is the new single post battery. Positive and Negative connections all in one! ![battery](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/2X/e/e48eebf0cf9d99747a370a61f479d0a9c92b5ae1.jpg) OK, no not really. Sometimes I look at the cars that come in the door and wonder who the heck did this and what makes them think they should be anywhere near a car. ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/2 "2018-03-17T02:10:35Z")
I can just see the tow truck driver from AAA now… ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 2:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/3 "2018-03-17T02:14:58Z")
Maybe the guy was color blind. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/4 "2018-03-17T02:35:29Z")
![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/2X/7/7de40f863450269995adea6cfa87bec817246331.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/5 "2018-03-17T02:39:09Z")
I think Congress had a bill in the House mandating single post batteries. I think the single post was to be called a Washington Post. ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 2:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/6 "2018-03-17T02:47:17Z")
That’s why I hang out on this forum. Einstein’s birthday is on π-day, a coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/7 "2018-03-17T02:58:59Z")
Did somebody hijack you, You have not been vindictive and politically devisive in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/8 "2018-03-17T03:21:46Z")
@Barkydog. As I understand it, the single terminal battery with the Washington Post will be marketed by the J. P. Sousa company. ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/9 "2018-03-17T03:26:45Z")
@Barkydog. I am not being politically devisive. Bringing the positive and negative posts together is a unifying move. It’s called “reaching across the battery”. ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/10 "2018-03-17T04:00:01Z")
> [@Triedaq](#): > > Bringing the positive and negative posts together is a unifying move. Perhaps it will “spark” a movement in “current” events that serves to “charge” us to remove all the “insulation” from our “groups” and get our electrolytes in balance. ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 4:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/11 "2018-03-17T04:48:41Z")
You got me, my first thought was “how would you jump that?” ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 5:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/12 "2018-03-17T05:54:41Z")
Ahh, they’re both positive cables. The red cable runs to the main fuse panel. The black cable is the power supply to the liftgate at the back of the truck. Why they chose a black cable for that is anybody’s guess. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/13 "2018-03-17T13:54:40Z")
I’ll march to that. ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/14 "2018-03-17T22:30:54Z")
The best thing about a single post battery, it never runs down … 😉 Seriously, whoever that belongs to should wrap some appropriately colored tape over the wire with the wrong color. Otherwise it is an accident waiting to happen. Interesting photo there, thanks for posting. ---
**Author:** ![BillRussell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/billrussell/32/3179_2.png) [@BillRussell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/BillRussell)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/15 "2018-03-17T22:43:49Z")
Is this a real photo or photoshopped? ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/16 "2018-03-18T01:59:11Z")
100% real, as you see it. The black cable isn’t actually a ground cable. It’s the pos lead to an electric lift gate that has been installed on this pickup. Why they used a black cable is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/17 "2018-03-18T02:16:38Z")
I suspect the manufacturer of that splice cable chose to make it with both colors to suggest that it could be used in either post on the battery, a universal replacement cable. If the cable were to be used as a negative cable the red cable could be wrapped with electrical tape so someone not paying attention won’t become confused by two red cables. ---
**Author:** ![galant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/77aa72/32.png) [@galant](https://community.cartalk.com/u/galant)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/18 "2018-03-18T02:24:39Z")
I bet it was done so because the lift-gate is “grounded”. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/19 "2018-03-19T18:34:22Z")
I REALLY should have swallowed that coffee before reading your reply. NOW I need to clean my computer screen! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857/20 "2018-03-19T18:38:05Z")
> [@asemaster](#): > > Why they chose a black cable for that is anybody’s guess. I’ll take a stab at it… The automotive world uses red as the Hot lead and Black as the return Homes and travel trailers use Black as the Hot lead and White as return. Maybe the truck has that line Black as the accessory cable to correspond to the liftgate and any other accessory added by an upfitter. [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/have-you-seen-the-new-single-post-battery/113857.md?page=2)