Hi Rob. In this original post you didn't give any context. I have read through all the answers and it may be that you want to double up batteries in a truck or car. I don't see any problems with that because the two batteries would always be charged and discharged together. There might be an issue if one of them came to the end of its life. Depending on the failure mode it might just put all the load on the remaining battery in which case you might not know for a long time. If it failed shorted there could be catastrophic results. You wouldn't need a bigger alternator and regulator. The regulator would continue to tell the alternator to deliver the same amount of current it always did and it would divide more or less equally between the two.
Now, if you are just talking about charging two batteries at once from a charger to save time it wouldn't save you a second. The battery charger delivers a fixed amount of current and it would divide more or less equally between the two. With each one getting half the current it would take twice as long. Issues of charge condition and loop current between the two batteries have already been covered. Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Monitor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 12:20 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] series or parallel > HI, Here is a question for you guys that know about wiring. Here it goes > if you had two 12 volt batteries and wanted to wired them so you could > charge them both at the same time and keep them 12 volt would you run the > liars from positive to positive and negative to negative?? Also is this > called series or parallel?? > THANKS ROB FROM MINNESOTA > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the > following address for more information: > http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.29/1124 - Release Date: > 11/11/2007 10:12 AM > >
