ORIGINAL: Missileman
ORIGINAL: Allfat
ORIGINAL: Missileman
"C" stands for the battery Capacity measured in mah or milliamp hours.
ie.... 1700mah battery C=1700ma or 1.7amps
Well, with a 1700 mah battery, C=1700 milli-amp hours (mah) or 1.7 amp hours (Ah). An Amp is a current, not a capacity.
If you have a 1 Ah battery, then if you pull 1 Amp of current off the battery, then it will theoretically last for an hour before it is empty.
True and I should have written it the other way but when doing the math C/10 for example the desired result is not capacity but charge rate in Amps.
I should have said C= 1700mah on a 1700mah battery and the desired charge rate is C/10= 170 ma for 10 hours + (+ is due to the inefficiency of battery charging so add about 10% to 20% or so or about an additional 2 hours)
Yeah, but we usually don't run them all the way down so charging efficiency doesn't become an issue.