irishnut 297 Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 Jus tried it and guess what ....... It's fried my blitz cheers for that shite advise shite advice!!! or did you make a balls up. did you connect the 2 positives together, and 2 negatives together on battery, then connect lamp or lamp to positive on 1 battery, connect negative from same battery, to positive of other battery, the negative from 2nd battery to negative of lamp Quote Link to post
Forager 14 Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 thats because you wired it wrong connect the two + together then run a wire to your lamp then connect the two - together and run wire to lamp you should put a fuse inline on the live side forager Quote Link to post
irishnut 297 Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 (edited) thats because you wired it wrong connect the two + together then run a wire to your lamp then connect the two - together and run wire to lamp you should put a fuse inline on the live side forager yup, same voltage, double the amps Edited February 8, 2012 by irishnut Quote Link to post
123456 146 Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Batteries in series - add the voltage Batteries in parralell add the amps Quote Link to post
BrianSteven72 369 Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Jus tried it and guess what ....... It's fried my blitz cheers for that shite advise must of wired the batterys up wrong all it would do is blow the bulb or blow the fuse if one fitted .wire batterys up right and get a new bulb and your sorted Quote Link to post
gasaxeman 165 Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Jus tried it and guess what ....... It's fried my blitz cheers for that shite advise must of wired the batterys up wrong all it would do is blow the bulb or blow the fuse if one fitted .wire batterys up right and get a new bulb and your sorted when in doubt about doing something ask. when in doubt ask Quote Link to post
thee undertaker 78 Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 LEAD ACID BATTERIES 12V 17AMP ON EBAY £32 POSTED TO YOUR ADDRESS . . . . I GET 3 AN HALF HOUR OUT OF A FULL CHARGE WITH THE 170 LAMP WITH A 100WATT BULB IN ATB . . . . Quote Link to post
Tiny 7 1,694 Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Done it wrong so it my fault... I did say WIRE it right and they'll be no problem ,Fcuk me this place gets better you give advice and get shot down for it...!! Tell you what stop being a tight arse and buy a battery then Quote Link to post
moonlighter 1,160 Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 You need to wire the batteries in parallel, not series. All it will have done is blow the bulb. Get a new bulb and wire the battery in parallel. Quote Link to post
pip1968 2,490 Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 I have a £100 budget for a good battrey for the lamp what do you recons the best option for my budget ??? Thanks just bought a 20ah battery brand new and delivered for 40quid so you should get agood second hand lamp for the remainder atb Quote Link to post
dso88 15 Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Why. Don't you sell some of your lamps because why do you need 4 lamps anyway put it towards a lithuim batt Quote Link to post
benji benji 60 Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Dosent it make it a 24v and will blow the lamp ??? if you wire neg to poss will stay same if you wire opposite will double and syay same amp google it piece of piss Quote Link to post
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