Hmm, you could still do this even if they were essentially really BIG D-Cell's. All the wiring could be built into the battery box, and you just Close the lid to make all the final contacts....
At 10:23 PM 10/17/2002 -0700, Lee Hart wrote:
A 1-cell Optima would weigh about 7 lbs, and be about 3.25" diameter and 6.5" high. Hexagonal arrays pack tighter than the rectangular array of the present Optima (about 14% more battery power in the same box).A pair of studs on top is the obvious way to connect them (like the Hawker single-cell BC). But this is a LOT of bus bars and nuts. Some kind of connector would be very interesting. Perhaps snaps like 9v batteries, which can be snapped together in arbitrarily large series strings. Or just cylindrical cells with a contact on top and bottom, that are placed in tubes and held by contact pressure on the ends, like flashlight batteries.
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