Adding a 2nd Battery?
Would it be a problem if I connected a second battery to the current battery. My Class C had 2 Batteries, Class A only has 1.
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Alan_Hepburn wrote:
...and like any socialist society, all the individuals will eventually balance out to the lowest common denominator. In other words: weak batteries will prematurely weaken good batteries...
I have seen no evidence of this in 15 years of doing it. Now batteries have multiple failure modes. SHORTED. yes a SHORTED battery will "Suck down" the rest of the set.. Don't matter if it's a week old (Had it happen) or 5 years (Never had it happen).. But the most common failure is what I call high resistance or loss of capacity... And in those cases the battery simply disparages and causes no damage.. Replaced 2 of those last month. Out of 3 (the 3rd passed load test with flying colors)..
So not As I said it's not a people socialist, it's a PERFECT socialist arrangement. Something not possible with people.
I've been doing this for a long time..
I had one battery (Car starting) fail within a week of purchase. .The identical replacement lasted many years.. Which goes to show "identical" is not always identical.
I've never had a bad battery in a parallel arrangement take down the others.
