Balanced Charging X's 4 6V Batteries
As I've recently started a campaign returning to basics on the care and feeding of my soon to be replaces X's 4 L16's - I have a follow up question. I've confirmed proper wiring to yield parallel/s...
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Almot wrote:
Forget Iota diagram. It is not your situation because it shows 4 batteries in parallel.
What you have is 4*6V batteries in series-parallel, you may consider it to be two 12V batteries in parallel.
Yes the diagram is not what I'm running with. But the concept of balanced charging would be the same(?).
As my interconnects were disconnected, I laid them out and measured, and the two longer runs were 3" difference. (Never knew that by just eyeballing the S curved cable while on top of the batteries:)!). I also looked over how the shop had single crimped the two cables they made, not impressed with the workmanship. So, with the new bank, I now have two short 12" and two long 15" cables coming from Genuinedealz. They shipped yesterday.
And another observation, is that with only X's 4 batteries in my bank, the connection points of the charge sources is fine. However, I believe (And could be wrong?) that if I had X's 6 or X's 8, etc. That then Iota diagram would come into play, with the charge points being the middle batteries of the bank.
For anyone who reads this thread in the future, please correct me if I'm wrong and 'balanced charging' only applies to parallel?
TIA, and best to all,
Smitty
