Power supply recommendations

[Michael Hipp]

Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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?

Close.

Energy = Power x Time. Wattage is an instantaneous value, energy is 
cumulative. Power is measured in watts. Energy is measured in joules (or 
watt-hours for your electric bill).

Michael