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patdufo

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6 8v golf cart batteries to make 24v battery bank?
« on: June 28, 2018, 08:30:54 PM »
I have 6 8v golf cart batteries and I am trying to make 24v?series conection that I used with 4 6v batteries doent work because I am left over with 2 positive and 1 negative?every way that I tried ended up 16v?

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Re: 6 8v golf cart batteries to make 24v battery bank?
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2018, 08:43:16 PM »
Two series strings of 3 (3 x 8 = 24v per string) in parallel.
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Re: 6 8v golf cart batteries to make 24v battery bank?
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2018, 09:34:08 PM »
Sometimes I find it easier to picture them as dry-cells:


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Re: 6 8v golf cart batteries to make 24v battery bank?
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2018, 09:41:50 PM »
I guess technically this would have been better to show.  Ideally you want the wire lengths on parallel strings to be even: