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Re: Battery Performance Curve?

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Originally Posted by dsalvucci View Post
Thanks for the quick reply.

I could be entirely wrong but i do not see what i am looking for in those graphs. Does one of those say battery life with the amperage being drawn at say 100A versus 200A? We understand that Ah is 17.2, but we also know the correlation is not linear. We are looking for a graph of that correlation.
The chart titled "NP Discharge Characteristics Curves at 25c" shows it, but not at the high current draws that you want. 1C is the speced discharge rate (17.2 amp hours). You can compare the curves 3C (51.6 a) and 2C (34.4 a).