Monthly Archives: June 2017
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June 15, 2017
Intuitively people realize they can connect batteries together to increase voltage or capacity, but far too often they are not entirely confident on how to exactly configure the batteries to achieve the desired result. In some cases, as it turns out, they actually do know how to accomplish the desired goal, but just seem to get the terminology a little mixed up.
Even with simple procedures such as changing a battery, people seem to hesitate trying to remember which terminal to connect first. This creates doubt and doubt leads to second guessing, and second guessing leads to unnecessary change which can lead to catastrophic failure! So let’s just take a quick second to remind everyone about the terminology and how to connect batteries and disconnect batteries in series, parallel and the dreaded series/parallel combination.
Exploring Battery Safety First
This is one area you don’t want to mix up. You may skate by once or twice or for a lifetime without incident,
