Battery Life Calculator
Calculate battery life, required battery capacity, and average current from duty cycle for battery-powered electronics.
Calculator category

Calculate battery capacity, runtime, charging, energy, pack configuration, and other battery system parameters.
Available Calculators
10
Engineering Applications
4
Each listed tool links to a working calculator with engineering inputs, formulas, examples, notes, and related resources.
Calculate battery life, required battery capacity, and average current from duty cycle for battery-powered electronics.
Convert battery capacity between µAh, mAh, Ah, and coulombs for charge-unit reference.
Calculate battery energy, required capacity, or nominal voltage from Wh, Ah, mAh, and voltage.
Estimate battery charge time, required charging current, or added capacity from SOC, efficiency, and current.
Estimate discharge time, remaining usable capacity, or runtime-based average current from SOC and usable capacity.
Estimate runtime, average current, or required capacity for Active, Idle, and Sleep duty-cycle load profiles.
Calculate series battery pack nominal voltage, full-charge voltage, cutoff voltage, and required cell count.
Calculate battery pack voltage, capacity, energy, total cell count, and series-parallel configuration.
Calculate battery C-rate, charge and discharge current, required capacity, and maximum continuous current.
Calculate coulombic efficiency, energy efficiency, round-trip efficiency, energy loss, and required input energy.
Choose the calculator that matches the decision you need to make: decode a component marking, size a value, check a frequency response, estimate loss, or verify a safety margin. A category page is useful only when it helps you reach a working tool, so this page lists released calculators only.
Calculator results depend on unit choices, idealized formulas, tolerance, temperature, frequency range, and component limitations. Review the formula and engineering notes on each calculator page before using the result in a schematic, BOM, or PCB layout.
Use the calculated value as a design reference, then confirm it against datasheets, derating curves, layout parasitics, measurement conditions, and manufacturer limits. The related guides below provide background when a calculation needs more context.
Engineering Guide
Measure delivered Ah and coulombs from current samples while controlling offset, timing, discharge cutoff, and test conditions.
10 min · Intermediate
Engineering Guide
Design battery packs beyond ideal series-parallel arithmetic using cell matching, current sharing, BMS limits, balancing, fusing, isolation, thermal controls, and validation.
18 min · Advanced
Engineering Guide
Estimate charging time, usable discharge, efficiency, and runtime with explicit SOC, taper, temperature, aging, BMS, and validation boundaries.
20 min · Intermediate
Engineering Guide
Learn how Ah, mAh, Wh, runtime, usable capacity, efficiency, C-rate, charge time, discharge limits, and series-parallel pack sizing fit together in battery-powered electronics.
20 min · Intermediate
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