how battery works repot

how battery works repot




Abstract
Advertisers are always touting more powerful and longer lasting batteries, but which batteries really do last longer, and are battery life impacted by the speed of the current drain? This projects looks at which AA battery maintains its voltage for the longest period of time in low, medium, and high current drain devices. The batteries were tested in a CD player (low drain device), a flashlight (medium drain device), and a camera flash (high drain device) by measuring the battery voltage at different time intervals (independent variable) for each of the battery types in each of the devices. My hypothesis was that Energizer would last the longest in all of the devices tested. The experimental results supported my hypothesis by showing that the Energizer performs with increasing superiority, the higher the current drain of the device. The experiment also showed that the heavy-duty non-alkaline batteries do not maintain their voltage as long as either alkaline battery at any level of current drain.
Materials and Methods
Materials List
• CD player & a CD (low drain device)
• Three identical flashlights (medium drain device)
• Camera flash (high drain device)
• AA size Duracell and Energizer batteries
• AA size of a "heavy-duty" (non-alkaline) battery (I used Panasonic)
• Voltmeter & a AA battery holder
• Kitchen timer
Experimental Procedure
1. Number each battery so you can tell them apart.
2. Measure each battery's voltage by using the voltmeter.
3. Put the same battery into one of the devices and turn it on.
4. Let the device run for thirty minutes before measuring its voltage again. (Record the
voltage in a table every time it is measured.)
5. Repeat #4 until the battery is at 0.9 volts or until the device stops.
6. Do steps 1-5 again, three trials for each brand of battery in each experimental group.
7. For the camera flash push the flash button every 30 seconds and measure the voltage
every 5 minutes.
8. For the flashlights...

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