How To Link Two Batteries Together. As in the diagram above two 6 volt 45 ah batteries wired in series are capable of providing 12 volts 6 volts 6 volts and 45 amp hours. A number of people asked about the sizes of the cables required to link the batteries together and raised the question could the cables linking the two batteries be smaller than the actual cables connecting the battery bank to the equipment.

As in the diagram above two 6 volt 45 ah batteries wired in series are capable of providing 12 volts 6 volts 6 volts and 45 amp hours. Add a battery and keep the same voltage. For example you can connect six 6V 100Ah batteries together to give you a 24V 200Ah battery this is achieved by configuring two strings of four batteries.
This will lengthen the time before your batteries will need to be recharged giving you a longer time that you can run your appliances.
One way doubles the volts of the two batteries and the other keeps the same amount of volts. How to connect batteries in series and parallel configurations. Once two 6V batteries are wired together in series you can wire them to another pair of 6V batteries using parallel. What youre doing when you snap them together is connecting the two batteries in series so you have a total of 18V but its also a short.

