6v vs. 12v house batteries
If you have 4 6v house batteries, would you be better off to replace them with 2 12V house batteries.
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topflite51 wrote:This is specious reasoning.
Reason is simple enough. ... what happens when ... one of the 6V's (2 months old) shorts out, leaving you with only one 6V to power your refrigerator controls...(snipped quote).
The same argument could be applied to any 12v battery. What if someone dry camps with one 12v battery? Do we advise him/her to carry a spare? 2-6v batteries in series are nothing more than a 12v battery in two pieces, and it's no more likely to catastrophically fail than a 12v battery.
Having one battery fail is possible, yes, but probable? Hardly. And it's no reason to not use 6v.
