Enter the Battery
voltage and
nominal load
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From Equation (2) earlier
Peukert’s capacity = (I
1
)
n
x R
1
per battery
= 15.2
1.217
x 6
= 166.00 Ah per battery
4. The Peukert’s capacity for the series combination (Batteries #1 and #2) is 166.00 Ah.
5. The Peukert’s capacity for the parallel combination (Batteries #1, #2 and #3, #4) is 2 x 166.00 Ah = 332.00
Ah.
A.5 Using the Spreadsheet
Download the spreadsheet “Peukert’s Parameters Calculator.xls” from www.alpha.ca website.
Enter the number
of parallel strings
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