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- From: becker@shell.portal.com (CELIA TONY BECKER)
- Subject: Re: Power and current
- Message-ID: <C1Cu27.Lt@unix.portal.com>
- Keywords: Power and current
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- References: <C1Bq16.2EA@math.okstate.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:49:19 GMT
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- dunne@math.okstate.edu (Ed Dunne) writes:
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- >If I have an appliance with a heating element rated at 850 watts, how
- >much current (in amps) is it going to draw in a standard 110V circuit?
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- >Ed Dunne
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- Power, given in the units, Watts, is equal to the product of the Current, given in Amperes, and Electromotive force, given in Volts.
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- Solving for the current, we compute:
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- 850 Watts / 110 Volts = 7.73 Amperes
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- Tony
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