Question for battery experts

[Big House]

I am looking to run a 3S1P A123 and 2S1P both 2300 mAh in series to basically get 10V and 4600 mAh which should in theory get me 138 continuous amps. Will this work?

[Arct1k]

You can't do this... Series means 3s1p + 2s1p = 5s1p

Parallel would be 2s1p + 2s1p = 2s1p

The packs have to be the same to do parallel

[Big House]

Thanks for that. I understand that in series I would get the voltage, but I am looking to get a higher available amp supply as well as a higher mAh. Any suggestions in how to do this?

[E-Revonut]

Wouldn't 2s1p +2s1p = 2s2p if run parrallel? I'm not an expert but pretty sure thats right.

Going to Big House's question that means that if you run 3s1p +2s1p in series you have 5s1p which still leaves you with 2300mah. Packs must be equivalent to run in parrallel so no you can't do it, you could do 3s1p +3s1p = 3s2p which is what you want, about 10V 4600mah

[What's_nitro?]

^^ As said above each pack must contain the same number of cells if they are to be put in a parallel configuration. If the packs aren't that old you could just buy 1 more A123 cell and add it to the 2s1p pack to make it a 3s1p. Then you could parallel the two 3s1p packs without issue.