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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>
> > This is why battery operated electronics can run until the battery is
> > almost flat, even though the battery's voltage continually drops as it's
> > drained.
>
> Really? That's interesting. I always thought it was the battery outputs
> full voltage until just before it actually dies (which is why battery
> meters are never, ever, under any circumstances, actually accurate).
Actually, the battery's resistance increases with depletion, which means the
more current you draw and the lower charge of the battery the lower the voltage
you get. The idle voltage will almost always be the same, regardless of the
charge state of the battery.
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