What rating is this batt? 7 aaa bats,each says 1000 mah soldered together pos to neg. Each batt says 1,2V. When I check on my hobbico digital volt meter (MkII) it reasds 9.42 no load, 8.9 under load. I thought it was a 4.8 batt, but those readings don't look right. What am I missing???? And if I put 2 of those pack together with a y harness is thet parallel or in series? Could I do that, and with what results? thank you
venom

Seven cells wired in series will give a voltage of 8.2. However, a fully charged 1.2 volt battery will show somewhat higher voltage, so the 9.42 and 8.9 readings you are getting are reasonable. A 4.8 volt pack would only have 4 cells.

A Y harness would typically put them parallel, which would give you the same voltage output, but double the capacity, but if the polarity is reversed, some wires and batteries might get really hot. A better question is what are you trying to do?

Welp, I have a few of those batts. laying around. I wanted to make a higher mA batt for long run time. ON rx and servos. Futaba 3 chan, ground freq. . I thought the packs were 4.8 volts though. So that would be to high voltage with just 1 of them then.
venom

Would be for trucks/boats etc. So I could disassemble the packs, Solder 4 cells together, and have a 4.8 v, 1000mah pack? Do that again and put a y harness between the two and have a 2000mah, 4.8v pack? Sry for the questions, couldn't find any where and am going to work soon. Wanted to assemble on breaks.( I have long breaks, lol)
venom

A Y Harness?????

Vernom290, are these to be used with a BEC on your ESC?? Also what was the configuration of the stock battery??

Don

nitro powered, just want to extend runtime for servos and rx

Piper chuck, never mind. After reading your post the third time it finally got through the thick skull what you were saying. IE parallel two 4.8 packs.

Don

OK, I'll go back to sleep now.

Don

Series cells add the voltage.

Parallel cells add the capacity.