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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
It is all highly managed and will not over draw, no matter any reasonable current available. (It couldn't handle a lightning strike.)
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Personally, I wouldn't consider a lightning strike reasonable but maybe that's just me. But you bring up a point that many people seem to forget. As long as the voltage is in spec and the current meets the minimum requirement, the charging circuit will not allow more than the maximum safe charging current.
Though there are some interesting items about using lightning to charge your cell phone courtesy of Nokia and some scientists in the UK a few years back.
Kind of makes you wish for the Shipstone battery (Robert Heinlein,
Friday) or the batacitor (Philip J. Farmer's
Riverworld series).