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Re: Non Frc: Electrical question series and parallel

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Originally Posted by Tri_Lam View Post
if it does retain the voltage if we put the cells into a series does the voltage add together?
(from a cell with .5 v and 6 amps split into two .5 v and 3amps, then put them together does it become 1 volt with 3 amps?????? is that what your saying????
If you put cells in series, the voltage adds up.

solar cells do behave differently than battery cells....I think Al didn't catch the fact that you're dealing with solar cells. I dont' know what the voltage would be with 4 cells in series, connected in parallel with another 3 cells in series, my guess is it would be somewhere between 1.5 and 2 volts, more or less, depending on the load (the actual voltage you get out does in fact depend on the load applied in any case).

Perhaps you could do some experimenting? be careful...see what happens.
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