Is it just me, or has this thread gone off topic a tad ?? 73, Dick, W1KSZ
-----Original Message----- >From: Michael Tharp <[email protected]> >Sent: Aug 19, 2012 12:42 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Modern motherboard with RS232 port > >On 08/19/2012 03:38 PM, Christopher Brown wrote: >> Though I am a little surprised about residential power being >> measured/billed in VA not KW/h in North America. Pretty sure the US is >> in North America, even Alaska in slightly more North America. Never >> seen a VA/h meter in the US. >> >> Was guessing it was a CA thing, even though I had never run across any >> mention of VA billing in CA, but am looking at Manitoba Hydro, NB power >> and SaskPower billing rates right now in KW/h. >> >> Ed, can you chime in here, where is power billed by VA (outside of some >> commercial/industrial and private generation agreements)? >> >> VA is used all over the place in electrical systems calculations and >> equipment specs but have never seen billing on it. > >It's also my understanding that homes are always billed by the watt. >Even in industrial scale they charge a fee for poor power factor but >they aren't billing by VA, according to Wikipedia at least. > >Still, a good plug-in power meter is a great tool for any home. I would >have one already but everything is already plugged into a battery backup >with a watt-meter built in and I'm not terribly concerned about accuracy. > >-- m. tharp > > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
