Personally, I think its a waste of metal to hook the "N" plates together. The whole point of N plates is to drop the voltage across the cell, if two plates are connected together then they are the same circuit. Its like hooking two wires together, the plates need to be seperated in order to provide the voltage drop. Maybe I am looking at this from a different point of view and am missing the true meaning. Hooking two plates together gives them the same resistance value and thus makes them one plate. Seperating them will provide 2 seperate resistance values. Anyone with a different view please step in and correct me if i am wrong.
2006 Ram, 5.9 cummins HO. 4 cell design, 1.5 LPM@30amp, 24.3 MPG