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I have a domestic battery made up of 12 2v cells laid side to side -
so total length 2.15m x 3.18m wide. Cells each have 4 terminals - 2
pos and 2 neg. I intend taking off 2 x 70mm power feeds. On the end
cells only 1 pos and 1 neg terminal is used to connect it to its
neighbour. Should I:

a. take a pos and neg feed from each end.
b. take only the 2 pos feeds from one end and the 2 neg feeds from
the other end.

TVMIA

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CS wrote:
I have a domestic battery made up of 12 2v cells laid side to side -
so total length 2.15m x 3.18m wide. Cells each have 4 terminals - 2
pos and 2 neg. I intend taking off 2 x 70mm power feeds. On the end
cells only 1 pos and 1 neg terminal is used to connect it to its
neighbour. Should I:

a. take a pos and neg feed from each end.
b. take only the 2 pos feeds from one end and the 2 neg feeds from
the other end.

TVMIA


Can you do a diagram of what you have because it's either too late (I've
been programming all night) or what you wrote above doesn't make sense.

F'erinstance, an end cell should not be connected with a pos and neg to
its neighbour.

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In message , Gibbo
writes
CS wrote:
I have a domestic battery made up of 12 2v cells laid side to side -
so total length 2.15m x 3.18m wide. Cells each have 4 terminals - 2
pos and 2 neg. I intend taking off 2 x 70mm power feeds. On the end
cells only 1 pos and 1 neg terminal is used to connect it to its
neighbour. Should I:
a. take a pos and neg feed from each end.
b. take only the 2 pos feeds from one end and the 2 neg feeds from
the other end.
TVMIA


Can you do a diagram of what you have because it's either too late
(I've been programming all night) or what you wrote above doesn't make
sense.

F'erinstance, an end cell should not be connected with a pos and neg to
its neighbour.

If he's got 12 x 2v cells at a guess it's a series parallel 12v set-up

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CS wrote:

I have a domestic battery made up of 12 2v cells laid side to side -
so total length 2.15m x 3.18m wide. Cells each have 4 terminals - 2
pos and 2 neg. I intend taking off 2 x 70mm power feeds. On the end
cells only 1 pos and 1 neg terminal is used to connect it to its
neighbour. Should I:

a. take a pos and neg feed from each end.
b. take only the 2 pos feeds from one end and the 2 neg feeds from
the other end.

TVMIA

Careful here. There are some cells around that have four posts per module
and are, in fact, two 2V cells in the same wrapper. You will probably need
to do some probing on the terminals with a multimeter to determine what the
connection pattern for the posts is. Often they are completely separate but
occasionally you may find some internally linked.

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In reply to CS ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

I have a domestic battery made up of 12 2v cells laid side to side -
so total length 2.15m x 3.18m wide. Cells each have 4 terminals - 2
pos and 2 neg. I intend taking off 2 x 70mm power feeds. On the end
cells only 1 pos and 1 neg terminal is used to connect it to its
neighbour. Should I:

a. take a pos and neg feed from each end.
b. take only the 2 pos feeds from one end and the 2 neg feeds from
the other end.

Looks like this thread's become nothing much to do with the subject in hand.

:-)

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Uncle Marvo wrote:
In reply to CS ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

I have a domestic battery made up of 12 2v cells laid side to side -
so total length 2.15m x 3.18m wide. Cells each have 4 terminals - 2
pos and 2 neg. I intend taking off 2 x 70mm power feeds. On the end
cells only 1 pos and 1 neg terminal is used to connect it to its
neighbour. Should I:

a. take a pos and neg feed from each end.
b. take only the 2 pos feeds from one end and the 2 neg feeds from
the other end.

Looks like this thread's become nothing much to do with the subject in hand.

:-)



We're digressing whilst he gets round to posting the diagram we need in
order to answer his question.

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Uncle Marvo wrote:


a. take a pos and neg feed from each end.
b. take only the 2 pos feeds from one end and the 2 neg feeds from
the other end.

Looks like this thread's become nothing much to do with the subject in hand.

:-)

Not much has changed since I've been away then......;)

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On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:18:18 -0700, CS wrote:

I have a domestic battery made up of 12 2v cells laid side to side -
so total length 2.15m x 3.18m wide.
I have trouble visualizing this battery. You say 2.15 meters by 3.16
meters. 72 square feet of battery tops?
Doing the math, the area of the tops of the cells are just over six
square feet each, including whatever free space there is between
cells. Somewhat larger than the ones in an average submarine.
Interesting.

Casady

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I have trouble visualizing this battery. You say 2.15 meters by 3.16
meters. 72 square feet of battery tops?

Oops decimal point - 0.318m wide!!!

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On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:04:25 -0700, CS wrote:


I have trouble visualizing this battery. You say 2.15 meters by 3.16
meters. 72 square feet of battery tops?

Oops decimal point - 0.318m wide!!!

This, of course, is why the metric system is far better than the
imperial one.
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