Battery Configurations

Series Battery

Voltage and Current

Voltage is Additive

Current Remains the Same

Parallel Battery

V and A

Voltage Stay the Same

Current Additive

Series Parallel Battery

V and A

Voltage and Current both Additive

Add Up Everything and divide by two

What do you never do to a batteries terminals?

Never short a batteries terminals

What do you never do to cables while charging or under a load

Disconnect

When placing trays in a series, how should you set up them up.

So positive can connect to negative

When connecting a battery to a load or charger, how is it set up.

Positive to positive and negative to negative

What do you do first when installing a battery into an electrical system?

Determine polarity of battery terminals

With Voltage DC

Series hookup

Positive to negative

Positive of first cell and negative of the last cell will serve as terminals

Parallel Hookup

All Positives and all negatives are connected together

Series-Parallel Hookup

Connect Positive to Negative First

Then all positives and all negatives