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BFL13
Explorer II
Dec 17, 2013

Drawing or Charging From Different Batteries in a Bank?

I can't remember (if I ever knew) why you are supposed to have the loads and the chargers all on the same battery posts in a bank. Say you have three 12s in parallel. What's wrong with having an i...
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wa8yxm
Explorer III
Dec 19, 2013
Almot wrote:
BFL13 wrote:
I am asking what those bad things might be ...

Each battery will age at different rate?


Yup, one battery may become TOO OLD a day before the other one that way, Or a week, but if you do everything exactly as you should, Balance them out and pay strict attention to everything... Well about the only difference is that it might wind up being the other battery that ages faster.

Unless you are sucking major power, Like say a 2,000 watt inverter at full load, often,, Won't make much difference.

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