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Re: 2-Speed vs 1-Speed drivetrain

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Originally Posted by dellagd View Post
I'm not an engineer, but doesn't this calculation have to be related back to the capacity of the battery somehow? When drawing, say, 5 amps, intuition tells me some tiny lead-acid battery would have a much larger drop in voltage than a huge deep-cell marine battery would.
A larger battery will have a lower resistance, causing less of a voltage drop.