Thread: Dule batterys
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Re: Dule batterys

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
...why not just wire them in parallel?
Batteries in parallel rarely work as well as you'd expect. Unless they are very well matched in condition, you'll usually end up with one battery discharging farther than it should before the other one has provided all its available energy.