Batteries in parallel and series
There is a current thread discussing 6 6V batteries to provide 12V. I drew up a picture but someone said it will work but there is a better way. I did not want to hijack the thread so I figured I woul...
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This works well enough in practice, but it isn't theoretically perfect. The middle pair of batteries shares a bit less of the load than the outer two. Probably the simplest way to get theoretically perfect balancing is to run each of the three battery pair leads separately to a bus bar or other common connection point, using equal length wires for each battery.
In practice, though, I'm pretty sure what's shown would work very well.
In practice, though, I'm pretty sure what's shown would work very well.
