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Old April 14th 20, 01:46 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Battery switching without tears

On Monday, April 13, 2020 at 1:08:16 PM UTC-7, kinsell wrote:
That could be a significant voltage drop across the resistors. I'd use
a couple power Schottky diodes instead.



On 4/13/20 1:11 PM, Andy Blackburn wrote:
I did because I am.

Big old power resistors. I think they were 1-2 ohms. However, after considering battery performance implications of deep discharge I normally fly with the switch set to both batteries.

Andy Blackburn
9B


... a few ohms of series resistance will cut it down to a couple of amps if you are anal about it.

Tom



Anybody who took EE101 (and most everybody else) can tell you that:
E = I * R
If
I = 1A
R = 1Ω
then
E = 1V