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Taking a tall narrow white radiator / towel rail with heat output 3150 BTU, which equates to circa 900W, how hot would it get with a 600W towel rail element? Is there an easy calculation? (Element is a MEG thermostatic, I know 600W will fit, not sure ...
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It will get as hot as it needs to get in order to dissipate 600 watts: : Taking a tall narrow white radiator /....
3150 BTU, which equates to circa 900W, how hot would it get with a 600W towel rail element? Is there an easy calculation? No.
How many watts of electricity does a 10,000 btu air conditioner use an hour? I want to figure out how much my? air conditioner use will cost me before I get billed for it so I can only use it when Absolutely necessary
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It will give the units rating in watts or if not, in amperes in amperes or amps, multiply....
Electricity produces 3.4 btu's per watt, so 10000/3.4 gives about 3kw per hour if the AC unit delivers a 100Just look on the specification plate.
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:21:46 -0800 (PST), Aaron Fude <aaronfude@gmail.com Hi, I'm interested in buying one of these radiators, but I am having a hard time believing the BTU ratings on these units. Is the 12,000 BTU's really possible in a 3'x3' ...
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R On Fri, 23 Jan conversion is pretty straightforward... .
I wonder why they give both BTU/h and watts...
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:26:45 -0800 (PST), Handplanes <handplanes@aol.com A watts to BTU, so that's pretty definitive.
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Calculating Heat Load: Heat is measured in either BTU or Kilowatts. 1KW is equivalent to 3500BTUs. The heat load depends on a number of factor's 1.The floor area of the room 2.The heat generated by equipment 3 the heat from lighting 4.The number of room...
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Square footage lights you have....
And 12K btu is about equal to 1 ton.
4K Btu is perfect.
If there vented/air cooled, then shoot for at least 2k btu for every 1000 watt light.
6K btu is perfect.
1,000 watt light.
What is asimple formula for checking, cfm on electric FURNACE.Is 1.08 multiplied by Deltat divided by BTU of furnace
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I wanted to get the OP thinking.
Determine watts and 1 watt is equal to 3.414 BTU's....
Just picked up a new Watts M1 prv for my boiler and in reading the yellow tag that is attached noticed that it is not to be used on coal or wood fired boilers having an uncontrolled BTU heat output. What PRV should be used for wood and coal units? 30#...
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This one is rated at 510,000 btu an hr Do you have uncontrolled btu output? Hand fired boiler.
We have a 5-year old ground source heating system with a water-to-water heatpump. Recently the system was checked by a technician employed by the original installer. One week later the compressor didn't start and I had another guy from the same company...
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In a simple world, you'd....
The second equation is used to turn raw power into BTU.
However, motors and pumps tend to have a bad power factor, so watts is not volts * amps deltaT, this must be the outside water loop.
For watt-hours.
What is with this? how can ads that are so deceptive be allowed to continue? i have a brother who will not accept the idea that we can measure heat output, and that's what matters most in ANY heater! 1500 watts is 1500 watts. 5000 btu is 5000 btu. If ...
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Humidity.
The value of 1500 Watts in, is distorted by what the meaning of IS, is.
If you figure a way to beat that, you have Comfort Conditioning .
1500 watts = 1500 watts forever.
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Quote: : The point about faster recovery doesn't make any sense. 4500 watts puts 15000+ BTU into the tank no matter where it is. Are you really going to disect this? It works, does it not? Why not go out and buy a electric water heater and disable one...
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4500 watts puts 15000+ BTU into the....
4500 watts puts 15000+ BTU into the tank on the faster recovery.
: : The point about faster recovery doesn't make any sense .
I have a small, rather dense server room that I need to cool. The total watts I have in there now is approx 12,000, plus the need to cool another unit that has a 2800 btu rating. I would like to be safe and be able to cool 17,000 watts of computer equipment...
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Up with it 12,000 btu = 1 ton my calculations came out the 3.4 btu is necessary to cool every watt (I have seen calculation on the Internet as high as 3.7) my projected equipment will be 15730 watts which would need 53482 ....
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