What happens when battery V1 is 5 degrees warmer than battery V4 because V4 is next to the wall and V1 isn't?
What happens when you add resistance between R1 and R2, between R2 and R3, between R3 and R4, between R4 and load?
And same for the bottom - what happens when you change that ideal wire into a more realistic model with resistances?
The currents for the different batteries will be different - probably only slightly different when the batteries are new.
But as the batteries are cycled and are continuously exposed to different environments how well matched will they be after a year or 2 years?
And will those differences self-regulate and you have a feedback loop that keeps the batteries relatively matched?
Or will the feedback loop cause them to diverge more and more until one or more batteries are no longer "healthy"?
The last two questions actually aren't rhetorical - I honestly don't know what happens when you have lead-acid batteries in this type of configuration. But I'd be very concerned about the latter question having an answer of "yes".
What happens when you add resistance between R1 and R2, between R2 and R3, between R3 and R4, between R4 and load?
And same for the bottom - what happens when you change that ideal wire into a more realistic model with resistances?
The currents for the different batteries will be different - probably only slightly different when the batteries are new.
But as the batteries are cycled and are continuously exposed to different environments how well matched will they be after a year or 2 years?
And will those differences self-regulate and you have a feedback loop that keeps the batteries relatively matched?
Or will the feedback loop cause them to diverge more and more until one or more batteries are no longer "healthy"?
The last two questions actually aren't rhetorical - I honestly don't know what happens when you have lead-acid batteries in this type of configuration. But I'd be very concerned about the latter question having an answer of "yes".
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