I have 4x 6V 12Ah gel cells that I'm going to wire up for a total of
The question is:
Is there any benefit or (or detrimental effect) of shorting the 6V point of both series strings together?
"Caliban"
** Have you thought about using ballast resistors ???;-)
........... Phil
I think you only need two batteries in series to get 12 Ah at 12 V...
** Well spotted - nice one Tom.
.......... Phil
Easy way
+_______/ +[6v]- --- +[6v]- \_______ - \ +[6v]- --- +[6v]- /Double V double A
Arse. Yes that was supposed to be 24Ah sorry. Teach me to post after Friday night knockoff beers. The question remains though, any point/detrement to shorting the 6V tap?
I take it by your (other) sarcastic post you think this is similar to electrolytics Pill?
Two in serial and two in parallel connection of four identical batteries is the way to go - standard practice. There are some considerations if there are more than two parallel links of batteries....
12Ahpoint
I think that is what he is suggesting - he's asking whether there would be any effect if the middle wires were connected together, ie. making it a series string of 2 pairs of paralleled batteries.
No determental effect while batteries are delivering power; but could be a problem when charging -- the battery with the lower internal resistance will tend to charge better, so oyu don't really get a "proper" full charge.
Yep that's what I was asking.
Cheers, I won't do it then.
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