Der Voltaischer Stapel hat das Prinzip der Spannungsaddition durch Reihenschaltung elektrochemischer Zellen entwickelt. Jedes Zink-Kupfer-Paar, jede Zelle, erzeugt eine charakteristische elektromotorische Kraft (EMF) of approximately 0.76 volts. By physically stacking these cells, Volta demonstrated that the total voltage across the pile is the sum of the individual EMFs of each cell, as described by [latex]V_{total} = n \times V_{cell}[/latex].





