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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wa8yxm wrote:
Oh and balancing is only important when you are sucking hundreds of amps (or pushing) and even with a 2000 watt inverter at max load you won't bother the batteies the way you have 'em.
So what happens if the batteries on say the left provide 34% of the power (33+33+34=100 percent) as they discharge the voltage will drop every so slightly and the other one of the other two will provide that extra percent. So all batteries will be so close to each other in State of Charge the difference will not be something you can measure.
Now at around oh say 500 amps. THEN you might be able to notice differences.
w8xyxm that is simply not true. There are more than a few real life tests that show it makes a difference. The way the batteries charge is the issue due to their internal resistance. Using the OP's method causes an imbalance so batteries do not charge equally.
