How much fuel is in your battery?
How much fuel is in your battery?
The best way to determine the state of charge of a battery
A battery is a store of energy. It can be considered as a container of water that is either full or empty. With a water container it’s easy to determine how much water you have left in the container. Similarly on many batteries with the exception of Mercury batteries, the terminal voltage can be an indication of the state of charge, this is not a very accurate method to determine the stored charge. There are many factors that make this method unreliable….
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