Engineering · power
A power budget that keeps unknowns visible.
Select researched candidates and vary capacity, voltage, operating mode, communications, and sensor duty cycle. Every result is derived—not a physical measurement.
DERIVED from component datasheets plus visible assumptions. No output is field validated, measured battery life, or actual charging performance.
Model boundary
Nameplate, assumption, and measurement are different states.
The calculator uses manufacturer values where available, reserves 20% of battery nameplate energy, and refuses to complete totals with unknown component power. Conversion loss, temperature, aging, cable loss, and workload still require a real bench test.
usable_Wh = nameplate_Wh × 0.80 runtime_h = usable_Wh ÷ average_load_W source_mode = DERIVED · validation = false