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Battery Talk — What the Numbers Mean

Every now and then I get a question from someone at an RC field, and it's nearly always the same question: “How many milliamps is that battery?” The first time I heard that, I didn't know how to respond because the question didn't make sense to me. So my “What do you mean?” response resulted in another question about how big the battery was or how much capacity it had. That I could answer. Opening...
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