And because of that misunderstanding the output of air conditioners is very often stated in BTU/h and worse, not only in British measuring countries! This is a telling reason for implementing the EU-directive on labelling in 2010. No more delays, the present arragement is being abused by amongst others the air conditioning industry. They claim the the 'wattage' says nothing about the heating power and thus the output can only be measured in BTU/h. That was the stupid explanation I got for this nonsense.That the output of central heating and electric radiators is generally expressed in kilowatt does not seem to matter. When I wrote back to that company and explained that all power is supposed to measured by the watt, I did not get an answer at all.
It is strange. When I went to school we used the Metric Technical System and we had to learn the definitions of the calorie and the kilocalorie by heart. The kcal/h was used for the applications for which non-metric countries use the BTU/h. We did not have to learn the definition of the BTU, it was totally unknown! And now in summer time I see it in ads about air conditioners. I will mention this in contacts with the EU about '2010'. If 2010 goes right, then it is goodby and good riddance to this thing.
Han
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On 2006 Apr 29 , at 11:44 AM, Phil Chernack wrote:... power is going to be expressed in terms of the electric engines and thus, watts.
> That's Unfortunate, isn't it? The words "and thus" seem to indicate that somehow it is supposed to be obvious that if it's electrical it must automatically be in watts (and the unstated but erroneous corollary that if it's NOT electrical it can NOT be in watts).It shows that there is still a wide spread misunderstanding that watts only measures ELECTRIC power (or even that "watts measures amount of electricity", whatever that might mean).
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>Regards,Bill HooperFernandina Beach, Florida, USA==========================SImplification Begins With SI.==========================
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