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Test Post Calculating Your Power Needs

The most important consideration in choosing a battery is the amount of power the battery will deliver. This capacity is measured in amp hours, abbreviated Ah. (For the smaller portable lithium-ion battery chargers the power capacity is expressed in milliamps or 1/1000th of an amp, abbreviated mAh.) This measure tells you how many amps or electrical current the battery can deliver in one hour. The greater the amp hours the longer you’ll be able to run your electronic devices. However, when it comes to deep cycle lead acid batteries, you have to keep in mind not to go below the 50 percent discharge level. So if you have a battery rated at 24 Ah, realistically you’re only going to get 12 Ah. What does 12

Test Post Types Of Batteries

A battery is basically a chemical reaction in a box. In a simplified view, the main components are the positive and negative terminals on the sides called electrodes and a chemical solution between them called electrolyte. When you’re drawing power from a battery you’re creating an electrical circuit and causing a chemical reaction inside the battery whereby charged particles called ions flow from one electrode to the other. This translates into a flow of electrons (negative charged particles) out from the battery’s negative terminal through the circuit to the positive terminal, generating electricity through the wires connected to the battery. When you charge up a battery, electrons flow back to the battery from the positive to negative terminal, creating a chemical reaction once again and

Test post Why The Van Life

The first time I seriously thought about travelling for months at a time in a van was when my girlfriend Mary and I visited Arizona and Utah in early fall 2013. We only had two and half weeks of vacation time available. We thought flying would be too expensive and driving would’ve been too exhausting and time consuming. We ended up getting a rail pass with Amtrak for $600 each, there and back. It took us three days to go from Toronto, Canada, to Flagstaff, Arizona. This was a very comfortable and relaxing ride, considering we were in coach/economy class. It was great to watch the American countryside unfold in front of us — from the skyscrapers of Chicago, to the grasslands of Kansas, to