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NASA NTRS · 19690000646

Battery charge-discharge controller

Abstract

Charge-discharge controller contains punched-tape programmer capable of programming 305 discrete steps in the battery load. The indicating instrumentation includes meters for ampere-hours, watt-hours, voltage, current, and internal temperature and pressure. It also generates analog signals for recording the displayed data.

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Ciccanti, A. D.. 1969-12-01. Battery charge-discharge controller. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19690000646

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