Battery bank question

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    Wondering if this is good for a 12vdc solar application, they are 45ah so in series I would get over 200ah's in series and that doesn't seem alot for me. Am I missing something? TIA. 85181631_236818917495387_8631351897938198528_o.jpg
     
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    is tnDave still with us? probably not but anyways .....
    Probably OK - IF
    how do you plan to use the charge from this storage?
    lightly I would assume as the batteries are not deep cycle lead acid.
     
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    Careful here. Combining batteries, you get to add voltage or add amp-hours, but not both. In series the volts add. You would have 60 volts there ... at 45 amp-hours.

    There's another place the same issue comes up, where in that case it seems the marketers are making the mistake deliberately.
     
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    Yes. Right.
    You do NOT want to connect them in series.....for any "normal" use.
    For additional capacity, they would be connected in parallel......but that isn't a really good idea either.

    (How did we ALL miss this the first time around ?)
     
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