Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Battery capacity printed on the label doesn’t necessarily tell you what you’ll get in a real project. Saad Imtiaz demonstrates battery profiling with the Qoitech Otii Ace, using active and sleep loads to see how a cell behaves throughout its discharge cycle.
He also shows the Joulescope for measuring power consumption, and recalls testing supposedly 3,000 mAh lithium-ion cells that turned out to deliver only around 250 mAh.
From Elektor Lab Talk #49: Mobile Power, USB-C and Batteries: Watch the full episode here - youtube.com/live/oTQqHs3Iy4s
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Battery capacity printed on the label doesn’t necessarily tell you what you’ll get in a real project. Saad Imtiaz demonstrates battery profiling with the Qoitech Otii Ace, using active and sleep loads to see how a cell behaves throughout its discharge cycle.
He also shows the Joulescope for measuring power consumption, and recalls testing supposedly 3,000 mAh lithium-ion cells that turned out to deliver only around 250 mAh.
From Elektor Lab Talk #49: Mobile Power, USB-C and Batteries: Watch the full episode here - youtube.com/live/oTQqHs3Iy4s
Elektor Magazine: Serious engineering insight and electronics projects — starting around €8 per month. Trusted by tens of thousands of engineers. elektormagazine.com/membership
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