william.p.dube(at)noaa.go Guest
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:00 am Post subject: Handy Battery Cpacity Calculator (was: Odyssey % of charge) |
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The Peukert calculator at the bottom of this web page is very useful for
determining the capacity of a particular battery under some load other
than the rates given in the specifications.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8679/battery.html
You plug in the 20 hr rate and the reserve capacity (or the capcity
at some other rate) and the webpage calculates the Peukert exponent. You
them move down a bit and plug in the load of interest and the web page
will calculate the capacity at that load.
Quite handy. Very useful.
Keep in mind that the temperature of the battery has a big effect.
The capacity goes down the toilet on a lead-acid battery when it gets cold.
Bill Dube'
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