So after spending way more time arguing than I should have with people in the comments section of a recent video by @Off-Grid Garage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypzNH56_aWE) about the need to keep cable losses in mind when doing battery capacity testing in Amp-Hours, I decided to put the matter (hopefully) to rest with this video. I start by showing a typical discharge curve of a 20Ah LiFePO4 battery. Then I build a test set-up with an 8 meter cable between the battery and a CBA IV battery tester. I use alligator clips and undersized wire to push the current draw to the maximum it can handle with that mess in between. It could pull 8A and the voltage at the tester dropped to 0.5/0.6V (the lowest the CBA IV will allow) and ran this for almost 2.5 hours until the battery was depleted. I then show the results of the amount of Ah and Wh drawn at the end of the test. In the end, this shows that even with massive losses in the wires and connections (80%!) the Ah rating at the end remains the same and is a good indicator for the capacity of the battery. In other words: voltage, losses, etc. don't matter when you test Amp-Hour capacity - the current flowing is the same everywhere in the circuit. Naturally, the measured Wh at the end of the test are not, because of the losses in the set-up - if you want to measure Watt-Hours, you need to account for losses. This is one of the reasons why battery capacity is given in Amp-Hours: the amount of current a battery can push in a circuit for a given amount of time. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfTWO-yf3BU

As some of you know, I spend a lot of time and effort (and money) to try and prevent clear cutting patches of forest. I don't mind using trees responsibly, but I don't think clear cutting fits in this. This time I was too late putting in an offer to buy the plot. If you want to help me, please support this channel on LBRY. I'm trying to make a large area in the neighborhood of my cabin go from monoculture forest for harvesting to diverse natural forest again...