Hi. Is it good practice to connect alkaline cells in parallel in order to increase capacity? Thanks Geoff.
Good Practice
Apr 08, 2006
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This is good in theory. If you have one that is worse than the others, it will pull down the better ones. It is better to use chargeable batteries in parallel. At least if they get pulled down, they can be charged back up again.
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JANA _____
Won't putting batteries in parallel cause some kind of reaction in the batteries? Someone once told me that two batteries which accidently touched eachother at the same pole, were red hot and melted together.
Uhh.. I don't know how that could have happened... Maybe they touched a wire from the positive side to the negative side..
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