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  1. Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!walter!porthos!dasher!patter
  3. From: patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (patterson,george r)
  4. Subject: Re: Power and current
  5. Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
  6. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 02:21:53 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1993Jan25.022153.5760@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
  8. Keywords: Power and current
  9. References: <C1Bq16.2EA@math.okstate.edu>
  10. Sender: netnews@porthos.cc.bellcore.com (USENET System Software)
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  13. In article <C1Bq16.2EA@math.okstate.edu> dunne@math.okstate.edu (Ed Dunne) writes:
  14. >If I have an appliance with a heating element rated at 850 watts, how
  15. >much current (in amps) is it going to draw in a standard 110V circuit?
  16.  
  17. Amps = Watts / Volts. I'll leave the rest to you.
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  23. George Patterson -  | Release 1.0 - Alternate pronunciation of beta
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