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- From: matt@severian.chi.il.us (Matt Crawford)
- Subject: Re: inverter electric lesson
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- > > 2) It is totally meaningless to say something takes "60A per hour".
- >
- > Well, perhaps not *totally* meaningless, albeit more or less useless:
- > I would look at "Amps/Hour" dimensionally as a rate of change of current.
- > As I said, not particularly useful,
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- Unless you're ramping up your superconducting dipole magnets to keep
- your very expensive antiprotons moving in a circle of constant radius
- as they gain energy at a known rate ...
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