All of this drama and craziness taken aside, I thank Batteriser for actually helping me learn more about electronics. With help from all the pro's in the forum, we hobbyists have gained quite a bit of understanding and more interest in battery power curves, boost circuits and practical limitations of battery powered devices. That's the main value of this thread, even though it is fun to speculate and rant about the motives and ethical indiscretions involved by the founders, the flip-flopping and non-sense with IndieGogo campaign, the increasingly amusing video rebuttals and now "meatpuppets" trolling the campaigns, forums and YouTube channel looking to attack anyone who asks a serious question. The scientific value alone is a valuable pursuit. It just so happens that it took something like Batteriser to kick off the educational opportunity.
So back to electronics. If I were to design, say, a constant current load on a battery to test drainage, could I use a variable resistor which adjusts according to the amperage setting desired for the drain current? For example, V=IR so as the battery depletes through a constant resistive load, the current will also decrease. If I wish to maintain a constant current, I would need to vary my resistive load and decrease it as my voltage drops to maintain the same current. I imagine I could use a discrete component which intrinsically keeps the current constant as it passes over it, or some comparator which evaluates the current and can vary resistances to keep the current constant?
I'm looking it up on Google... constant current source circuit... See educational off-shoots are abundant!