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RE: Air compressor fill times

To: Ronald Olds <tr6@pipeline.com>, shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Air compressor fill times
From: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:25:26 -0800
> 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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