How many milliamps in 1 amp?

Fifer

YB wrote:

Is he any relation to Léon Charles Thévenin, the French telegraph engineer who developed a theorem in 1883?

You'll be trying to tell me that it wasn't Nortin who developed the related concept of equivalent circuits?

fairenoughclough wrote:

Well you'd better switch it off before it burns your neeps and tatties.

Woops, typo. I did mean Thevenin of course, which kind of ruins the joke. Sorry.

Fifer

stevemcol wrote:

Just to out geek the geeks, power isn't strictly volts x amps.
It's volts x amps x power factor.

Power factor is the cosine of the phase difference between the voltage and current waveforms.

What you've described of course is Apparent Power which is the vector sum of Real Power and Reactive Power.

bingo_bango

DrBenway wrote:

[MYRIAPODOLOGY LESSON]

For what it is worth no centipede, ([LATIN LESSON]Centum meaning hundred, ped meaning foot[/LATIN LESSON]) ever has one hundred legs or feet:shocked: . They always come with an odd number of pairs of legs or feet. So you can have 98 or 102 but not 100.

[/MYRIAPODOLOGY LESSON]

cough, cough.....surely an odd number of pairs (as opposed to an odd number of legs) would be 97, 99, 101, 103 etc........ not 98 or 102

superscaper

bingo_bango wrote:

cough, cough.....surely an odd number of pairs (as opposed to an odd number of legs) would be 97, 99, 101, 103 etc........ not 98 or 102

And surely a centipede born with 102 legs or more could end up with a hundred Actually how many legs would a centipede have to lose to become a pirate centipede?

bingo_bango

P=S-(lxn)

Where S is the number of legs it starts with, l is the average lifespan in weeks, and n is the average number of legs lost per week.
P, obviously, is the time it becomes a pirate.

From that, you could say that S-(lxn) is the number of legs.

rygon

Fifer wrote:

What you've described of course is Apparent Power which is the vector sum of Real Power and Reactive Power.

which we call MVARS!!! and what are MVARS..well theyre there to hold megaflowers

steady__eddie

"Can all you electrical experts remember the Wayne Kerr Bridge ? - or I THINK that was how it was pronounced !"

Wasn't that the proposed channel Link prior to Eurotunnel winning the concession ?

stevemcol

Fifer Rygon

Reactive power.....VI Sinθ if my memory of college is still clear........

fairenoughclough

stevemcol wrote:

Fifer Rygon

Reactive power.....VI Sinθ if my memory of college is still clear........

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"If you can remember college, you weren't there"
-- Robin Williams
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stevemcol

and my favourite circuit theory.........superposition!