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Originally posted by Jakencub:
If you take 2 6v 850amp batteries and wire them together would that work as one 12v 1700amp battery?

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If you wire them in series, you will have 12 volts and 850 amps.
If you wire them in parallel, you will have 6 volts and 1700 amps.

I have seen one time that when you put batteries in series, the current and voltage added. They were 185lb 2.0 volt cells (AGM batteries for a UPS system for a collisium)

Each 2 volt battery would do 200 amps of current by itself. When I put two in series, it did 400 amps at 4 volts. When I did 3 in series, it did 600 amps at 6 volts. By the time I did 6 of them in series, it was doing 1800 amps, which calculates to 3600 CCA. Too bad that setup weighed 1110 lbs.

I even called the manufacturer to ask them about it and they said that was impossible.

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