Parallel and series

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Eekins

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I think the type of unregulated parallel box you're thinking of is the type with a mosfet. Those are used to amplify the current if the material used isn't sufficient(My brother is an electrician). There are plenty of unregulated parallels that don't use wires. Osmium, incubus, the oh so popular copper cherry bomber. These simply use metal that are highly conductive and generally don't need the mosfet.
 

Heroldal

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current only flows one way.
in a serial circuit the batteries connect to each other (nearly) directly because the output from the first battery just enters through the other one and continues on to the resistor. practically no wiring needed, because you could just stack all parts one on the other.

battery > battery > resistor > Grounding

in parallell on the other hand, the batteries are put, as the name suggests, parallell to each other and the two batteries are not connected to each other at all, but both are equally connected to the circuit putting out shared amounts of Voltage to the resistor. to achieve this you can not simply connect the batteries to each other in any way, because then it would be serial again, or it would end in nothing at all. therefore in achieving a full circuit in parallell more wiring is needed, to fill the empty space between the electric source and the resistor (coil) and back. But there are also a few mod examples, that show parallel builds without to much wiring

battery
battery > resistor > Grounding

the main difference between these two is the voltage/amperage output.
serial doubling your Voltage and parallel doing it similar with your amperage.
 
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