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spezzez
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May 06, 2015

Battery series/parallel questions...need advice/info

I mainly boondock camp vs hooking up in an rv park. I have a brand new fully charged Super Start Marine Deep Cycle 12-volt, 27-group battery; and a brand new fully charged Exide 12-volt, 24-group Deep...
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Grandpere
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May 06, 2015
It would be better to have both of them the same group, but you an get by with connecting them in parallel. Parallel give you 12 volts and extra amp hour capacity of both batteries added together; in series you would have 24 volts (12 plus 12) and only the max amp hour capacity of the smaller battery.

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