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Old Mar 5, 2010 | 10:13 AM
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Can someone convert this for me please.

3.5 kva into Watts

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Old Mar 5, 2010 | 10:39 AM
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Might help...........?


Conversion Table For VA To Watts
200Va 140 Watts 0.58 Amps
300Va 210 Watts 0.88 Amps
400Va 279 Watts 1.15 Amps
500Va 350 Watts 1.46 Amps
600Va 420 Watts 1.75 Amps
700Va 490 Watts 2.04 Amps
1000Va 700 Watts 2.92 Amps
1500Va 1050 Watts 4.38 Amps
2000Va 1400 Watts 5.83 Amps
2500Va 1750 Watts 7.29 Amps
3 kVa 2.1 kWatts 8.75 Amps
4 kVa 2.8 kWatts 11.67 Amps
5 kVa 3.5 kWatts 14.58 Amps
6 kVa 4.2 kWatts 17.50 Amps
7 kVa 4.9 kWatts 20.42 Amps
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Old Mar 5, 2010 | 10:56 AM
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Cheers mate, thats a great help
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Old Mar 5, 2010 | 11:41 AM
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http://www.abrconsulting.com/Convers...ec-con.htm#kVA

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Old Mar 5, 2010 | 06:31 PM
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bit like saying im doing 20mpg how fast am I going. What voltage we talking, power factor etc?
good link by the rapid 1 to be fair
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Old Mar 5, 2010 | 09:21 PM
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Originally Posted by StephenC
bit like saying im doing 20mpg how fast am I going. What voltage we talking, power factor etc?
good link by the rapid 1 to be fair
yep ! thought it might end up getting complicated if i started asking for 3 phase / single phase PFC etc, so thought if he had / new them it aint hard to work it out, rather than about 10 posts to find it all out
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Old Mar 5, 2010 | 09:37 PM
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Cheers Rapid, i emailed the link as he txt me and said can i work out the wattage from 3.5kva

He lives on a boat so i'm guessing it was something to do with a genny he wanted to buy ?
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