ummmmm....electrical theory.....

Bob R

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Craig McCluskey <diese...@pisquared.net>wrote:

> 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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