Bob Robinson wrote:

Offbreed wrote:

Spehro Pefhany wrote:

These days you could just snap 25 or 50 9V batteries together, but I
suppose those folks had more time on their hands and could stack up
metal plates and put them in a jar with electrolyte. shrug



"jars" Plural. More plates in one jar give current.

Nope, depends on how they're connected - plates in series give more
voltage, in parallel, more current...

In series in _one_ jar (one cell) and the ones in the middle are going
to short out. Try drawing it and seeing how the current flow will go.

Take a look at a car battery. Each cell is seperate from the others.