gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 07 Jan 2003 18:01:07 -0500


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UPS VA ratings (was: Re: [PLUG] equipment give-away on Wed evening) 

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:54:07PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> I have two UPS'es (uninterruptible power supplies). They are 420 and
> 450 VA respectively. Remembering freshman calculus and root mean
> squares, this means they are rated 300 and 320 W respectively.

Care to elaborate on that? I'm glad to admit my complete lack of
knowledge; I'd presumed those were model numbers. (I've got a pair
of 1100s, and it sounds like it was a good idea to go that large,
being as I've got a 450 W power supply in my IA32 machine...)

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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