Hi. Is it good practice to connect alkaline cells in parallel in order to
increase capacity?
Thanks Geoff.

This is good in theory. If you have one that is worse than the others, it
will pull down the better ones. It is better to use chargeable batteries in
parallel. At least if they get pulled down, they can be charged back up
again.

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JANA
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"geoff smith" wrote in message
o.uk...
Hi. Is it good practice to connect alkaline cells in parallel in order to
increase capacity?
Thanks Geoff.

On Sunday 09 April 2006 03:38, JANA wrote:

This is good in theory. If you have one that is worse than the others, it
will pull down the better ones. It is better to use chargeable batteries in
parallel. At least if they get pulled down, they can be charged back up
again.


Won't putting batteries in parallel cause some kind of reaction in the
batteries? Someone once told me that two batteries which accidently touched
eachother at the same pole, were red hot and melted together.

Won't putting batteries in parallel cause some kind of reaction in the
batteries? Someone once told me that two batteries which accidently
touched
eachother at the same pole, were red hot and melted together.

Uhh.. I don't know how that could have happened... Maybe they touched a wire
from the positive side to the negative side..