Battery Question: Combine my batteries?
I've always run 1 of my 2 12V at a time so that if I ran down the 1 I would have a back up. I've never combined them because I've worried I would run them both down and not have a back up. So, wha...
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You'll hear a dozen different reasons why keeping them together or separated is better. Seldom is the most pertinent reason to parallel them mentioned..
You have a charger or charging system. When you enable the charger a monster fuel eater starts up. Here is an exaggeration It gets the point across.
Let's say one 6 cell battery drops to a 12 amp charge rate rather than a 35 amp charge rate during the peak of it's hunger. Running a generator to get a piddly 12-amps is horrible to think about, right?
But what would happen if there were four batteries instead of one?
48-amps is not so piddly, is it? And an amp hour is an amp hour no matter which way the bread is sliced.
You have a charger or charging system. When you enable the charger a monster fuel eater starts up. Here is an exaggeration It gets the point across.
Let's say one 6 cell battery drops to a 12 amp charge rate rather than a 35 amp charge rate during the peak of it's hunger. Running a generator to get a piddly 12-amps is horrible to think about, right?
But what would happen if there were four batteries instead of one?
48-amps is not so piddly, is it? And an amp hour is an amp hour no matter which way the bread is sliced.
