Re: 9V battery testing; Thevenin equivalent; car headlamps.

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-08-01, Greg Neill <gneillREM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If this is a typical 9V battery as in:
>
> http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/522.pdf

So a load in the area of 270 to 620 Ohm (the examples in that data
sheet) would be much more suitable.


> then the usual load is in the neighborhood of a few tens
> of mA up to maybe a couple of hundred mA at greatly 
> shortened service life.  If your load current was really
> as high as 4A, then if the battery wasn't finished before
> it probably is now.

Oops!