Battery switching without tears
I measured the inrush current once again and found that the vertical of the scope was set for a 1X probe instead of the 10X actually being used. This meant that the peak current was 90A instead of 9A, which is a bit high. I added a 1.1 ohm resistor and the peak current dropped to 6A.
My understanding of that test and the numbers don't add up. I'm thinking you are charging a cap with a 12 V battery and measuring the current with and without and added 1.1 ohm series resistor?
If I combine the two measurements to find the open circuit voltage of the battery and overall wiring resistance I get 7.07 volts and 0.078 ohms.
Probably I don't understand what you are testing. We seem to have lots of time to kill. Could you send a picture of the circuits with the probe attached?
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