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- From: dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Hi Alfvaen
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.193332.13291@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:33:32 GMT
- References: <4522@cvbnetPrime.COM> <1992Dec31.022645.15452@atlantis.uucp> <OLSON.92Dec31083948@husc8.harvard.edu>
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
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- In article <OLSON.92Dec31083948@husc8.harvard.edu>
- olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) writes:
-
- >Castellan shudders. "Umm, I sure don't want 110 amps coming out of *my* out-
- >lets- maybe you meant 110V? 110A at 110V is, let's see, eek, 12,100 watts!
- >*FRAZZZ!*"
-
- "Think of it as ten hair dryers. (Many of them are 1200 Watts.) Probably
- still enough to trip a breaker, but not quite the sort of thing that melts
- wires. Of course, we don't know what the 12 kW is doing to the load. I
- mean, an Ohm wouldn't be impossible to get with a moist finger stuck into
- a light socket, and I sure wouldn't want to do that for any extended period
- of time.
-
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