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And how about rating vacuum cleaner power in AMPS?


"Tony Miklos" wrote in message
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| Richard J Kinch wrote:
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| zxcvbob writes:
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| My new Coleman "6 HP" compressor is louder and barely
produces half the
| air that the old Quincy did, and the Quincy only had a 1.5 HP
motor.
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| http://www.truetex.com/aircompressors.htm
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| Nice article. Now when will someone get on the case of the
true output
| of audio devices? Most 25 watt amplifiers from the 50's will
blow away
| a 50 watt or higher rated amplifier made today. They used to
measure in
| RMS (root mean square), now they normally rate the peak
wattage. It's
| been a joke for many decades.
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| What this has to do with a cold compressor I don't know. ;-)
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| Tony