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furyous68
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Apr 13, 2018

Use 24v Batteries to run 12v System... Possible?

Sorry for the long post.... Hi everyone. I am new here. I am an RV greenhorn... don't even own one yet. But, we're in the market & the biggest thing I want out of it is to be as self-sufficient as ...
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furyous68
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Apr 17, 2018
So, we have an electrical engineer down the hall from our office & he was wondering why multiple 6v setups instead of multiple 12v setups. He couldn't think of any real advantages to the 6v batteries over 12v (other than maybe congiguring for a certain space requirement. In fact... the wiring would be simpler to run 12v batteries in parallel. If AH are equal, is there any advantage to one system over the other?

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