Battery Wiring
By Ampman354, Section Storage Posted on Mon May 15, 2006 at 05:07:48 AM MST
brain fart need help

Each battery is 6 volts and 530AH's  would this get me 12volts?.....i know this seems stupid to the vets on this board and yes i searched the board for more info and the pics on the Otherpower battery section did fully help....helped but not enough.

Battery Wiring | 11 comments (11 topical)

Re: Battery Wiring (3.00 / 0) (#1) by commanda on Sun May 14, 2006 at 11:51:45 PM MST

No. Join all the left side positives together. Vertically. Join all the right side negatives together. Vertically. For each horizontal pair of batteries, join the 2 free terminals in the middle together. Ascii art. |   ----   | |   ----   | |   ----   | |   ----   | |   ----   | |   ----   | pos        neg Hope that makes sense. Amanda

Re: Battery Wiring (3.00 / 0) (#2) by cjdock on Mon May 15, 2006 at 05:47:22 AM MST

Here is my 6 v battery set up as a 12 v system:

Re: Battery Wiring (3.00 / 0) (#4) by Ampman354 on Mon May 15, 2006 at 09:13:29 AM MST

whats the total Amp hours on yours cjdock and any suggested configurations on my battery bank each battery will be 6v@530ah and i want it to be 12v amp will follow it having to be 12v.  There will end up being 16 batterys [ Parent ]

Re: Battery Wiring (3.00 / 0) (#5) by cjdock on Mon May 15, 2006 at 01:02:08 PM MST

My set-up is actually half of the pic I drew. I have only 4 batteries. My batteries are 201 amp/hour each so with each pair in series, then paralled to each other, I have 400 amp/hours @ 12volts. That link the other person provided is very helpfull to me. [ Parent ]

Re: Battery Wiring (3.00 / 0) (#3) by wpowokal on Mon May 15, 2006 at 05:47:49 AM MST

look here! http://www.solarexpert.com/Batteries/batchart.html regards Allan down under "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." James Dean

Re: Battery Wiring (3.00 / 0) (#6) by powerbuoy on Mon May 15, 2006 at 02:45:49 PM MST

How about this one ... Powerbuoy

Re: Battery Wiring (3.00 / 0) (#7) by TomW on Mon May 15, 2006 at 03:30:13 PM MST

Powerbuoy; Nice, accurate diagram and a very small file to do it, 2.2k and it conveys the information perfectly. My old 12 volt setup was exactly like that. 12 T105 Trojan 6 volters seriesed in pairs then those pairs paralleled. 12 volts at 1350 AH. If I recall right they are 225 AH at 6 volts. Now it is split into a 24 volt bank at 450 AH and a 12 volt bank at 450 AH. Just backing up your schematic with real world experience. Cheers. TomW The Truth is the Truth, even if no one believes it; and a lie is a lie even if everyone believes it [ Parent ]

Re: Battery Wiring (3.00 / 0) (#8) by powerbuoy on Mon May 15, 2006 at 04:23:25 PM MST

Thanks a lot!!! [ Parent ]

Re: Battery Wiring (3.00 / 0) (#9) by wooferhound on Tue May 16, 2006 at 12:32:56 AM MST

If it was me, I would pull the negative from the top of the diagram. W o o f -={(

Re: Battery Wiring (3.00 / 0) (#10) by ruddycrazy on Tue May 16, 2006 at 03:03:32 AM MST

Well powerbouy could be in the southern hemishere so the negative should be on the bottom [ Parent ]

Re: Battery Wiring (3.00 / 0) (#11) by TomW on Tue May 16, 2006 at 04:55:51 AM MST

Woof; Actually, I pulled my power from the middle of both sides in an attempt to keep it balanced. 12 volts can pull a lot of current so it seemed wise at the time. T [ Parent ]

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