Dusty R wrote:
I always looked at it this way.
Two 6v batteries is series may give a you more power but if one battery dies while you are out in the boonies, you are out of power.
But if you are using 2-12v batteries in parallel and one dies, you can keep going, you just need to run your generator more often.
Dusty
Dusty has a point, but what he has not seen is that if one of the 12 jars develops an internal short (a very common failure) the (was) good jar will pour power into it until one or both explode. Even single multi-cell jars can explode, but it is much rarer than it is for hard parallel sets.
Matt
