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Batteries may be wired in either a series or parallel configuration. When a battery is wired in series, the positive terminal is wired to the next battery's negative terminal. This increases the voltage while maintaining amperage of the two batteries. With parallel wiring, the positive terminal is wired to the next battery's positive terminal, and the negative to the next negative. This arrangement increases amperage while maintaining voltage. One common mistake is to believe that both amperage and voltage will increase when wiring batteries together. It will not; only one value will increase with respect to the arrangement. A battery bank may combine both series and parallel wiring configurations. Series strings of batteries are used to achieve the correct voltage, then a number of these series strings are attached in parallel to increase the amp hours of the total battery bank.
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