Running your Lipos in series or parallel?

[Blackjack-sven]

, double the cross sectional area and you have twice the volume.

IF YOU DOUBLE the ONE hose area you do get more volume, which is not the case. Try to ram double the volume of water through ONE hose because thats what your asking the battery to do.

[Jesse J]

my analogy is comparing batteries in parallel to two hoses. Two batteries in series would be two hoses with same discharge, so doubled volume. Two batteries in parallel would be two hoses that together deliver same volume as one hose. point is that in the parallel case the volume through each hose would be half.

Not really sure what you're saying, but what my statement you quoted should read, to calibrate the analogy is this: double the cross sectional area, maintain same volume, thus decreasing the volume from each battery by half.

I don't want to go too far with these analogies due to risk of confusion; it seems we have all hit the same page.