Breakers as Switches - Good Idea?
At 07:49 17 February 2016, krasw wrote:
Adding 1 amp switch/breaker for 200mA instrument draws 10% more power
from
battery because breakers have internal resistance. That may or may not be
significant. If you have 10 hrs battery capacity, you will loose on hour.
I doubt that.
10% of 200mA is 20mA, or 0,02A.
It would then take 50 Hours to reduce the charge by 1AH.
Is that a problem?
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