Power supply recommendations

Kurt Wall kwall
Fri Nov 26 05:22:56 PST 2004


On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:06:00AM -0600, Alma J Wetzker took 60 lines to write:
> Kurt Wall wrote:

[clueless about watts]

> Don't feel too bad about not getting it.  I have about eight classes to 
> compleat my EE degree.  I took a late Junior level lab and one of the 
> students on my team thought that if we had a 1W power supply that it would 
> force 1W through our system that was only rated to handle about .45W.  The 
> simple magic circle(*) to remember is Ohm's Law (V=IR).

Wattage being the amount of power (joules, I presume) dissipated?

K
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I doubt, therefore I might be.


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