At 1:28 AM -0500 11/5/2002, Anton Smirnov wrote:
>At 7:52 PM -0800 11/4/2002, Michael 'Mickey' Sattler wrote:
>>At 22:25 -0500 11/4/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> >>My 2000 mAh worth :-)
>>>
>>>or your 2aH worth ;-)
>>>
>
>
>actually, that is incorrect.
never mind.
I think I have gotten that backwards (ie the battery is drained @
2000mA for an hour, not 1 mA for 2000 hours) - Mr. Sattler's
statement may be correct.
>batteries are rated by how long it takes their voltage to drop to a
>certain lavel (I forget what it is) at a certain rate of discharge.
>For AA batteries, that rate is 1mA (which is why the unit of capacity
>is mAh. for a car's Lead-acid battery, the unit is Ah). The relation
>between current drawn & lifetime is not a simple inverse relation.
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