Sam Fly wrote
Joe,

Why do you want 14 volts...Most radios have a 12 volt regulator that
drops 14 volts to 12 volts...I for years used 14 volts only to find out
is was not required. Have used 12 volts with no problems since...

Sam Fly

Joe Allbritten wrote:
Does anyone know where I can purchase a 14 Volt gel cell battery. I
know I can wire 2 or more in series to get 14Volt,(12 + 2 or 6 + 8
etc..) but I thought someone might know where you can purchase a
single 14V battery.



Thanks in advance.
Er,... the terminal PD of a fully charged lead acid cell is 2.2V, so 6 of them in series results in a battery PD of 13.2V. As the cell discharges the PD will gradually fall to some value under 2V (how fast and how long this process takes depends on the rate of discharge and the relative "health" of the cell. So you may end up with you battery actually providing less than 12V for a good part of the time it is in use.

I suspect that manufacturers put 14V on their kit to get across the point that is well able to withstand the PD of a fully charge gell cell battery.

Rgds,

Derrick.