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Difficult. The manufacturers of car batteries have become extremely coy about the performance parameters of their products, probably because they don't want to be forced to meet them by a court.

However, I would suspect that it would be in the vicinity of 30-40 ampere hours. That means that it can deliver 30-40 amps for one hour, so at a voltage of 13.2 volts, that means 396 - 528 watt-hours, ignoring the fact that the voltage decreases as it discharges.

The "Cold cranking" current is a red herring...that is just the current it can supply for a short time, limited by the internal resistance of the battery.

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Battery manufactures have gone to a Reserve Capacity rating which is more realistic than using the Amp-Hour rating. Reserve capacity is the number of minutes that a battery can maintain a useful voltage under a 25 ampere discharge at a temperature of 25 degrees C. To maintain a high RC number a battery requires higher quality cell materials. The RC rating of a BXT-65-650 is 130.

To convert RCR (Reserve Capacity Rating) to Ampere-Hours at the 25 amp rate, multiply RCR by .4167.

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