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Old February 17th 16, 09:16 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tim Newport-Peace[_2_]
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Default 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?