In message <50313fd1.5000...@gmail.com>, Sarah White writes: >Induction and capacitance and random transformer magnetic flux nonsense >that makes AC currents act in unexpected ways. The difference between >volt-amp versus RMS watt versus peak watts, etc, etc. can be off by more >than you'd expect.
Only, not really with PC power supplies anymore, because both EU and USAs "EnergyStar" have requirements for power factor correction. So V*A=W is a pretty good approximation these days. And speaking of Intels small motherboards: I have a D2500CCE board and apart from some weirdness related to the videomemory not supporting 32bit writes in character mode, it works ok for me. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
