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Re: [OT] Help with power usage calculation
- Subject: Re: [OT] Help with power usage calculation
- From: Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:16:27 +0000
- References:
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Alex Monaghan wrote:
>
> How do you calculate consumption of these low voltage halogen lights ?
> We've
> put a few in the loo & lobby and considering doing the lounge, but
> this will
> require a number of lights to provide decent lighting. Have our plans
just
> caused additional profits for PowerGen ?
1 Watt is 1 Watt :-) You just need to factor in the loss of converting
mains to low voltage (or is that extra low voltage?). AIUI they're
usually fairly efficient though.
Alternatively, you could measure the consumption on the mains side of
the transformer...
Jim
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