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Old 10-05-2009, 07:37 PM   #47 (permalink)
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I believe that you get .5V on them without a load. Once you put a load on them the voltage drops. That is why you need 18V worth of cells.

If you had more than 36 cells, you could put them in parallel. However, you'd need equal amounts, so you'd need 72 cells.
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