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Nuts & Volts Magazine (July 2005)

Battery Analyzer for RC Power

By Alonzo Trueland    View In Digital Edition  


This battery analyzer project is designed to test the “health” of battery packs used in radio-controlled vehicles to drive their motors. An effective way to test the health of a battery pack is to place a normal operating load on a fully charged pack, and then record the voltage levels while it is discharging through a test load. The information produced from the recorded data will create a graphical “discharge curve” that can be used to examine its performance level and determine the health of

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Downloads

Battery Analyzer (imm100, the VB_Code and the complete PC program)



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