I'm trying to learn about batteries because my husband who thinks I know everything about electronics for some reason (I do not) keeps asking me questions about his motorcycle battery.
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I'm trying to learn about batteries because my husband who thinks I know everything about electronics for some reason (I do not) keeps asking me questions about his motorcycle battery.
One of the reasons no one understands batteries is because it's actually kind of hard to know how many electrons are stored in a battery ready to be discharged. I keep trying to explain this to him.
Now he wants to know what a "Cold Cranking Amp" is.
I'm going to CRY. What is a "Cranking Amp"
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I'm trying to learn about batteries because my husband who thinks I know everything about electronics for some reason (I do not) keeps asking me questions about his motorcycle battery.
One of the reasons no one understands batteries is because it's actually kind of hard to know how many electrons are stored in a battery ready to be discharged. I keep trying to explain this to him.
Now he wants to know what a "Cold Cranking Amp" is.
I'm going to CRY. What is a "Cranking Amp"
These battery people are just making stuff up as they go.
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I'm trying to learn about batteries because my husband who thinks I know everything about electronics for some reason (I do not) keeps asking me questions about his motorcycle battery.
One of the reasons no one understands batteries is because it's actually kind of hard to know how many electrons are stored in a battery ready to be discharged. I keep trying to explain this to him.
Now he wants to know what a "Cold Cranking Amp" is.
I'm going to CRY. What is a "Cranking Amp"
@futurebird It's what you get when chemists have come up with some really cool shit, then engineers built it, but you needed to give the mechanics something they could wrap their heads around. Kinda like how we still have horsepower - a random unit of power based on some random horse. Or feet based on some old king's foot. Our measurements are awful.
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@futurebird It's what you get when chemists have come up with some really cool shit, then engineers built it, but you needed to give the mechanics something they could wrap their heads around. Kinda like how we still have horsepower - a random unit of power based on some random horse. Or feet based on some old king's foot. Our measurements are awful.
You see I thought it was something like that. Apparently these are based on tests that you can do on a battery so you can compare how well one battery will do starting a motor to another. But manufacturers give this absurd high numbers "660 Cranking Amps"
More than 5 Amps is "too many Amps" in most contexts that I know. So I'm very confused. But, it's just based on some test?
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I'm trying to learn about batteries because my husband who thinks I know everything about electronics for some reason (I do not) keeps asking me questions about his motorcycle battery.
One of the reasons no one understands batteries is because it's actually kind of hard to know how many electrons are stored in a battery ready to be discharged. I keep trying to explain this to him.
Now he wants to know what a "Cold Cranking Amp" is.
I'm going to CRY. What is a "Cranking Amp"
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@futurebird Having commuted ~150k miles on motorcycles in the ~80's, I can say for certain that the kickstarter was frequently necessary in the winter even with an electric starter. So there were not enough "cold cranking amps" whatever those are.
Sometimes you just have cold cranky amps instead.
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I'm trying to learn about batteries because my husband who thinks I know everything about electronics for some reason (I do not) keeps asking me questions about his motorcycle battery.
One of the reasons no one understands batteries is because it's actually kind of hard to know how many electrons are stored in a battery ready to be discharged. I keep trying to explain this to him.
Now he wants to know what a "Cold Cranking Amp" is.
I'm going to CRY. What is a "Cranking Amp"
@futurebird I'm pretty sure "cold cranking amp" when it's winter and you wake the amps up too early
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You see I thought it was something like that. Apparently these are based on tests that you can do on a battery so you can compare how well one battery will do starting a motor to another. But manufacturers give this absurd high numbers "660 Cranking Amps"
More than 5 Amps is "too many Amps" in most contexts that I know. So I'm very confused. But, it's just based on some test?
@futurebird @JessTheUnstill lots of stuff around is high current but relatively low voltage. Your desktop PC processor could be drawing hundreds of amps but at like 1.2 volts. Some video cards recently had problems with their power connectors melting because of the current draw
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@futurebird @JessTheUnstill lots of stuff around is high current but relatively low voltage. Your desktop PC processor could be drawing hundreds of amps but at like 1.2 volts. Some video cards recently had problems with their power connectors melting because of the current draw
I guess I need to read about spark plugs too now. GREAT. Technically that's "learning about cars" which is something I have avoided all my life.
But nerd sniping husband knows how this goes. It's so unfair.
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I'm trying to learn about batteries because my husband who thinks I know everything about electronics for some reason (I do not) keeps asking me questions about his motorcycle battery.
One of the reasons no one understands batteries is because it's actually kind of hard to know how many electrons are stored in a battery ready to be discharged. I keep trying to explain this to him.
Now he wants to know what a "Cold Cranking Amp" is.
I'm going to CRY. What is a "Cranking Amp"
@futurebird when I was ten (knowing nothing about cars) "cold-cranking amps" made me imagine a strange "test rig" contraption involving a box of ice to immerse a battery in, a weighted crank, and a motor the battery was connected to. Battery turned crank, and marks on the crank showed how many "cold cranking amps". I put it in a short story for my fifth grade teacher, and she made me take it out for the second draft. I have never since learned anything about "cold-cranking amps".
