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Default Kill-a-Watt surprises

Phil Hobbs wrote:
Yes, of course. But a VA-hour is a meaningless unit unless you know the
power factor--real power costs money and fuel, whereas (apart from
transmission losses) reactive power just sloshes back and forth cycle by


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cycle. That's why multiplying it by any period of time longer than a
cycle is meaningless.