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MetroMPG · 01-10-2008, 03:40 PM

At the wall measurement is from a Kill-a-watt meter.

I'm not really sure how efficient the charger is because I don't have on-board instrumentation to tell me how much I've fed into or drawn from the pack.

EDIT: but I have seen references of 70-80% charger efficiency chucked around.

01-10-2008, 03:40 PM	#5 (permalink)
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