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If your cart has 4, 12 volt batteries in series to make up the 48 volts, just connect the 12 volt lights across one of the batteries.
With some difficulty. Easiest way would be with three lights connected in series, shining at the same time.
Yes, but know that when connected in series you will increase the voltage but the amps will stay the same as one battery. If you wire them in parallel you increase the amps but the voltage stays the same. Example: Connect two 12 volt batteries in series and you then have 24 volts with the same amperage as one battery. Connect two 12 volt batteries in parallel and you will have 12 volts but the amperage will double.
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No. If you connect two 12 volt batteries in series(positive to negative) to make 24 volts, you will have 100 amp hours. If you connect two 12 volt batteries in parallel(pos to pos, neg to neg) you will stay at 12 volts but have 200 amp hours
An electric light bulb, incandescant type, is designed to operate at a certain voltage. Let's take 12 volt car headlights for example. Two 12 volt lights are connected in parallel in a car to provide the headlights, the same 2 lights could be connected in series if used on a truck with a 24 volt battery, or 20 of the lights could be connected in series if connected to a 240volt home electric circuit. (In the US think of 10 connected in series on your 110 volt system.) The lights would each produce about the same light output, but the number of lights would cause more light in total. In series there is a problem, when one light failsm they all go out. That's why lights in a house are connected in parallel.
In parallel.Yes, you are limited. If one 12V down-light requires 50W of power then 20 down-lights will require 1kW. Something's got to give as more down-lights are added. The voltage might drop so as each light is added they all become dimmer or the power supply might over-heat due to it working so hard. It's hard to knowing exactly how many down-lights you can put in parallel unless you have a power supply manufactured for down-lights and it has the manufacturer's recommendation.
Use a series parallel configuration. Two batteries in series to get the 12 volts. Three parallel banks of two batteries to get an increase of amp hours.
Two 6 volt batteries in series, yes. In parallel, no.
Yes, If they hooked-up in series, not parallel.
No Yes. hook two in series, two in parallel.
If your cart has 4, 12 volt batteries in series to make up the 48 volts, just connect the 12 volt lights across one of the batteries.
Connect 2 of the 6 volt batteries in parallel and then connect the other 2 in parallel. Now connect those 2 pair in series to each other. You will now have a total of 12 volts with four 6 volt batteries connected in parallel/series. Click the link.
Two 24 volt batteries in parallel will give you 24 volts. The only other way is two 12 volt batteries in series.
To measure voltage be in parallel with the battery. Series would measure current. Parallel measures potential.
Paralleling four sets of 6 volt batteries will still give you 6 volts. Two 6 volt batteries in series will give you 12 volts. Parallel these series sets will give you longer endurance at 12 volts. There is no way you will ever get 48 volts out of four 6 volt batteries.
With some difficulty. Easiest way would be with three lights connected in series, shining at the same time.