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This circuit measures:
The voltage of each cell
The current delivered by the group
This is done by forcing the battery to deliver current through a resistor with a tiny resistance. This resistor, called a shunt/shunt resistor, follows Ohm’s law:
V=IR
This implies that
I=V/R
, which means that the current passing through a shunt is equal to its voltage (which can be measured easily), divided by its resistance (which is a known constant).
And it sends:
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We are not exactly sure of everything yet. |
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