OK, now here's one of *my* pet peeves. Just as I don't allow my students or myself to use "kilos" or "klicks", I likewise shun "amp" and "amps". This is hard for me because I was taught well enough by my father in the late fifties that I could do most household electrical wiring to code and, sure enough, we called them amps.
But I'm trying to mend my ways and to keep old, bad habits from thriving. I strongly prefer that we use amperes here or the symbol A. So I would have written, not "115 volt, 15 amp", but "115 V, 15 A" or "115 volt, 15 ampere". I reserve the silly names for lubs, incas, tootsies, quirts, and floozies. Enough of my grousing for now. I'll go downstairs now and cook supper. Jim (grumble, grumble, .....) On Sunday 21 October 2001 18:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .... > It doesn't, it just plugs into the wall, normal 115 volt, 15 amp > circuit. The point of the message was the ludicrous "6.0 HP" claim of > the manufacturer. Since most people have no idea what a HP is anyway > they can throw out some phoney big numbers and give people the > impression of a vacuum with maximum suck. .... -- James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston 10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street 843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424 http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644
