Newsgroups: sci.electronics
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Nicads in parallel
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.150245.9902@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3902@ash31.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 90 15:02:45 GMT

In article <3902@ash31.UUCP> svoboda@motcid.UUCP (David Svoboda) writes:
>Why can't nicads be used in parallel in order to increase the current
>capacity? ...

There is a general problem with paralleling voltage sources:  they aren't
all guaranteed to have precisely the same output voltage, and various
troublesome things can happen as a result.  A muscular nicad might try
to charge a feeble one, for example.
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