[geeks] UPSs

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:04:20PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:13:57PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > BTW, VA as in Volts times Amps is the same as Joules per Coulomb times 
> > Coulombs per Second, so the Coulombs cancel leaving Joules per Second.
> > So, VA has a time vector.  It is a measure of power per second.  Usually
> > Volts time Amps is just Watts though.  Not sure why they don't just advertise
> > that way.
> 
> i'm hardly an electrical guy, but i thought VA was Watts with no time vector.

But that seems ridicoulous to me[1] since Amps is all about the time vector
(specifically moving so many electrons every second).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd

[1] Physics guy, not EE.