Mark E. Skeels wrote:
> This design is a battery charger/discharger and the discharge portion=20
> of the device will dissipate around 100W-120W with both channels on.
>=20
> It is designed to give a measure of capacity of battery packs.
>=20
> The users expect it to handle a relatively high amount of power.
>=20
> It's not even close to green.   :-)

It could be, if you were to pump the energy back into the power line,
rather than just dumping it as heat.

-- Dave Tweed
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