On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:44:47 -0600 Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Craig McCluskey wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 14:58:12 -0800 (PST) Dimitri Seretakis
> > <dsereta...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > What should the resistance reading be?
> > 
> > It's a 400 W heater that runs on 120 VAC.
> 
> But he said "suburban".

Oh, yeah, he did, didn't he?!


> 
> >              2
> >            E      120 * 120
> >      R = ----- = ----------- = 36 ohms
> >            P         400
> 
> But the formula is correct. :)

So whoever can plug the power of his block heater into the denominator and
calculate his resistance.

For a 500 W heater, R = 28.8 ohms. For a 1000 W heater, R = 14.4 ohms.


Craig

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