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Re: [oletrucks] Electricity useage

To: "Mark A. Self" <mark.self@verizon.net>,
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Electricity useage
From: "Doug Pewterbaugh" <dpewter@email.msn.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 11:38:19 -0500
I think what you smell is burning insulation on your wires  ;-)

Regards,
Doug Pewterbaugh
dpewter@msn.com
Denton, TX
49 3104 216 5-window
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark A. Self" <mark.self@verizon.net>
To: "Oletrucks list" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:35 AM
Subject: [oletrucks] Electricity useage


> Sorry for this slightly off topic subject, but does effect us all.
>
> My compressor pulls 15 amps and is a 220 volt.  Acvording to the formula I
> found on the net:
>                                        Amps x Volts
>                       Kilowatts = -----------------
>                                             1,000
>
>                                           15 x 220
>                       Kilowatts = -----------------
>                                             1,000
>
>                                             3,300
>                       Kilowatts = -----------------
>                                             1,000
>
>                       Kilowatts = 3.3
>
> Now if the compressor ran continuosly for 60 min., wouldn't that mean that
I
> had just consumed 3.3 Kilowatt hours?
>
> Reason I ask is, this month the power company claims that we used 3.5
times
> as much electricity as the prior month.  I haven't used the compressor
that
> much, but I figured "GREAT, now i can't use the compressor anymore".  Then
I
> figured the math and I'm beginning to smell something a little bit fishy.
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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