kinda stupid question, but i never deal with electricity:

i have two 12V / 7amp batteries. i want to keep the volts the same but get the higher capacity. how do i wire the two batteries to get 12 V / 14 amps ????

thanks

Wire them in parallel. Positive to positive, negative to negative.

You would connect pole to pole - posi to posi, neg to neg.

Bear in mind you will lose about 25% of your runtime in the combined pack. Once you get down to a certain discharged voltage level, the rate of discharge will increase due to the nature of electron flow through a battery.

thanks guys... since it's for my field charger runntime etc... is less of an concern...