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Old Jan 25, 2010 | 05:03 PM
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Talking Re: Need mathematical help??
1ma. or milliampere is 0.001 AMPS. Let say that the battery has 50 amphours of stored current, You could ideally support a 1 ma load for about 50,000 hours. Or Ideally 50 amps for one hour, but the higher the rate of drain the less you can get before the voltage ( Pressure or push) tapers off and falls below like 10 volts and your kaput.

The battery has self discharging characteristics which shorten that by a goodly amount, as a good battery will sit for a couple of months and still crank you up, beyond that your into the lucky region.

Woody
 
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