Luke's many questions

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Original poster: "S & J Young" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net> 


Luke and other seeking answers,

You are asking dozens of good questions and usually getting many good
answers.  I suggest you invest in a "Handbook for Radio Amateurs", published
by the American Radio Relay League.  They are published yearly, but a used
one is fine - I got one on Ebay.  Any version published in the last 30 years
will answer most of your questions very well.  These are chock-full of good,
practical easy-to-understand explanations of theory and practical
applications (circuit designs, etc.)  A wonderful way to get a fairly broad
and complete education about electronics.
--Steve Y.

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Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:05 PM
Subject: control panel measurments


 > Original poster: "Luke" <Bluu-at-cox-dot-net>
 >
 > I recently saw a device in C Crane catalog.
 > It was called the Kill A Watt.  It is something you plug into the wall and
 > then plug something into it.
 > The literature stated it could measure the volts, amps, watts and
 > frequency.  It also said it could measure the power factor and VA of what
 > ever was pluged into it.
 >
 > This raises a couple questions.
 > First what technically is the difference between VA and watts?  I thought
 > it was the same thing.
 > Or does one have to do with power factor?
 > Is power the apparent power (not taking the power factor into
consideration
 > and VA the real power or vice versa?
 > Or is there something else I am missing on this?
<SNIP>
 > Any one have some input for me?
 >
 > Luke Galyan
 > <mailto:Bluu-at-cox-dot-net>Bluu-at-cox-dot-net
 > http://members.cox-dot-net/bluu
 >
 >
 >
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