{"id":12735,"date":"2018-01-29T11:12:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12735"},"modified":"2018-01-29T11:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:12:34","slug":"2018-01-29-battery-capacity-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12735","title":{"rendered":"2018-01-29 Battery Capacity Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From FB group<\/p>\n<p>Another FB member, who&#8217;s not in the groups, has also built a battery capacity tester.&nbsp; I think he uses a 10 ohm resistor.&nbsp; The typical testers found online apparently use what the battery makers say they use in the data sheets.<\/p>\n<p>This link is for the .PDF of the apps manual for Eveready Alkaline AA cells.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/data.energizer.com\/PDFs\/alkaline_appman.pdf<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, IIRC, the battery capacity tester this member built uses an Arduino to monitor the battery voltage as it is discharged, and the times and voltages are logged to a file of values in CSV format, which are later imported into a spreadsheet.&nbsp; I believe the Arduino only switches the discharge on or off, it doesn&#8217;t control the discharge current.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From FB group Another FB member, who&#8217;s not in the groups, has also built a battery capacity tester.&nbsp; I think he uses a 10 ohm resistor.&nbsp; The typical testers found online apparently use what the battery makers say they use in the data sheets. This link is for the .PDF of the apps manual for<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12735\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,144,331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alkaline","category-battery-or-cell","category-rechargeable-battery-or-cell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12736,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions\/12736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}