RE: Air compressor fill times

["Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>]

> My recollection is that there
> are 700-odd watts to the horsepower.

Except that electric motors aren't perfectly efficient, and generally don't
have perfect power factors, so volts times amps isn't necessarily watts.
1000 "volts times amps" (1kVA) per horsepower is a pretty good rule of thumb
for motors in this range.

Randall

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