Suggestion to update BATTERY information in meta files

[RomainCancouet]

This is a suggestion to improve the contents in BATTERY_PACKS (and BATTERY_TYPE?) to make it possible to record available energy capacity for the float (e.g. in mAh or kJ?)

Currently BATTERY_TYPE documents the type(s) of battery, BATTERY_PACKS only the number of packs but not the number of cells within a pack, nor the energy capacity.

Feedback on how to best document this are welcomed

[vpaba]

Hi @RomainCancouet, thanks for your suggestion.

My current thinking and preliminary proposal is to create a BATTERY_TYPE - R29 collection with the following concepts:

ID	Pref label	Alt label	Description
BT0001	Alkaline	Alk	Alkaline battery
BT0002	Lithium	Li	Lithium battery
BT0003	Hybrid	Hyb	Hybrid (alkaline and lithium) batteries

But I was also unsure if/how to create a collection to best support the population of BATTERY_PACKS, and it would be great if we could integrate the battery capacity information somehow (either in battery type or battery packs, but I'm more inclined towards battery packs?)

I'm following this with interest!