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From: Richard Goodwin (no email)
Date: Fri Jun 03 2005 - 09:39:43 EDT
If you want the total energy capacity of, say, 4
batteries, one obvious way is to connect them in
parallel. That way the available energy lasts 4 times
as long as would 1 battery, before recharging is
necessary.
But then when it does run down, you lose it all at
once if you aren't able to recharge right away. And
also there is the question of what happens if one
battery develops an internal short, which I have never
hard of either, but ...
Another way to get the benefit of the energy of
multiple batteries would be to use the energy from
each battery one at a time. Use battery #1, then when
it needs recharging, switch to battery 2, and recharge
battery 1 whenever you can. Continue on through the
bank to 3 and 4, recharging each previous one as soon
as possible.
This would be a real pain unless the process could be
automated somehow. Has anyone heard of a system like
this?
Dick
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