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  1. Thanks for your reply! This battery's a really old one...16 to 17 years (yes!) old. It had remained wrapped and unused all this time. I was glad when it reported 9+ V and assumed it's ok, but it seems things're not so simple. Time to buy a new one!
  2. Hi, I've recently started with electronics as a hobby, thanks to Arduino. It looks I've some misconceptions about battery voltage supply, and I'd appreciate somebody clearing this up for me. I've a battery that's supplying around 9.3V (when I connect multimeter to the two terminals without any load, it measures around 9.3V). I assumed this battery will always supplies 9.3V to any circuit. However, when I connected a 220ohm resistor and an LED in series, and measured voltage across the two wires connected to battery terminals, I found it to be just 3.23V. When I removed LED and left only the resistor plugged in, I got just 2.25V. Why is this? Why isn't it always 9.3V? Does voltage supplied by a battery depend on the load in the circuit? I also tried this by replacing the battery with Arduino, and using it as a simple power supply. I plugged in the resistor and LED in series into the 5V and GND analog pins. Voltage across the leads running into the pins measured 5V as expected. I removed the LED from the circuit, and it still measured 5V. I expected the battery supplied circuit to work like this, but it didn't. Is it that Arduino outputs a constant 5V voltage always, regardless of the load in the circuit? Thanks
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