Solar energy density is inherently weak. Physics requires it. Hoping won't change that.
Sort of like the blood in the hospital in the movie _The Killing Fields_. The doctors had plenty of blood, but it was spread all over the floor instead of inside bottles.
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More clear?
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Still wrong. Only takes 2 plates to make 2 volts The extra plates, in parallel, produce more CAPACITY.
Yep, I'm wrong. All the neg's are connected together in parallel and and all the pos's are connected together in parallel. so one of each would be 2 volts.
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On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:08:26 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Randy quickly quoth:
In a 2 volt battery, you're right. In a 12V battery, they're connected in series, each set producing 2V. Larger plates increases capacity.
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-- An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. -- Sydney J. Harris
I was refering to a single cell.
A 12 volt battery is 6 cells of 2 volts each. So inside each cell the plates are parallelled for more current, and then the cells are connected in series to provide the voltage needed in a complete battery.
I hope everyone reading this thread now knows what I was trying to say.
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OK I'll try some fancy ASCII art work too: :-)
| - + | | - + | | - + | | - + | | - + | | - + |
---| - + |---| - + |---| - + |---| - + |---| - + |---| - + |---(+)12V | - + | | - + | | - + | | - + | | - + | | - + |
There is your 12V "BATTERY" with multiple plates in each "CELL". :-) Aint ASCII art fun? ...lew...(nothing better to do till supper)
You are still wrong. Each cell in ANY lead acid battery is 2 volts, and virtually all have parallel connected, interleaving plates in each cell. Larger OR more plated gives increased capacity.
There really is no such thing as a 2 volt battery. lead-acid wise. It's only a cell - and a battery, by definition, is multiple cells.
No such thing as an A, AA, AAA,C or D battery either. They are all single cells. A 9 volt is a battery..
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It was, Randy, until you said that!
Just two plates =2V. So does 20 plates. So does 200.
The number of plates per cell affects the surface area, which in turn affects the ampacity of the cell. The number of plates in parallel has no effect whatsoever on the voltage of the cell.
LLoyd
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