VANAGON archives -- August 2003, week 4 (#511)

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:23:52 -0600 Reply-To: tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG> Organization: Tippen Ringware Subject: Re: 2 questions from a new list member Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

20W is only equal to 20VA when the phase angles for current and voltage are the same. Under perfect conditions from power company and from the plugin supply wall wart, they will be fairly close. Under load, they are not nearly as good, hence the proper way, VA, to tell the customer that he may not get what he expects.

tom

On 26 Aug 2003 at 16:56, Various wrote:

> > 20VA?? should we read 20W (wattts)? > that would make sense in that 1.67A*12V would equal 20W >

------ Tom Ring K0TAR, ex-WA2PHW EN34hx 85 Westphalia GL Albert 96 Jetta GL The Intimidator taring@taring.org

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