If you have several cells of say 9V in parallel the total voltage will still be 9V so what happens if all the cells are of different voltages?

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You get the lowest voltage.

Although it's not quite that simple. The higher voltage batteries will charge up the lower voltage ones to some extent, so you'll get the highest voltage that the lowest voltage battery can support while being charged by the other batteries.

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