[rescue] Onyx question

[Larry Snyder]

Yeah, power factor is in there, as well as harmonic content (nasty
with switching supplies), but for billing (non-safety) purposes
P=EI is close enough.
-ls-


Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> On August 1, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > That is possibly fairly close to what an Onyx with RE2 would do them
> > (assuming that an RE2 doesn't draw much more power than a lot of HDs
> > do).  So, anyone have a handy method for converting a steady pull of
> > 7A to kilowatt/hours per day, since someone so kindly pointed out
> > recently that in AC, Watts doesn't equal volts time amps. 
> 
>   I usually just use the volts * amps method...gets me within the
> right ballpark.
> 
>       -Dave


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