> From: Bill Dube <billd...@killacycle.com> > > The internal resistance of a battery does not change it's Ahr > capacity. Not even a tiny amount.
No, but it *does* determine how much of the battery capacity gets turned into waste heat, no? Assuming voltage stays fairly constant, the power dissipated by internal resistance rises with the square of the current drawn. That's energy that isn't going into moving you forward. :::: Hospitality, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. -- Ambrose Bierce :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
