Re: slow cookers
- From: ranck@xxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:11:10 +0000 (UTC)
George <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris Marksberry wrote:
of energy. However, we put in a "whole house" generator (because we live in
"hurricane land") and we were told by the installer that toaster ovens use
quite a bit of energy and not to use one in the event of a power failure
when we would become dependant upon our "whole house" generator.
It all depends what you mean by a "whole house" generator. It used to
Yes, agreed. How many other things are on that generator and how
many watts is it rated to generate on a continuous load basis? Remember
that refrigerators and freezers will draw a *lot* of power for a few
seconds during startup and if you have other large loads the reduced
voltage can be harmful to those electric motors.
sufficient size to run critical appliances. Now it isn't unusual for
people to
have 75kw units installed so they can run the whole house (including the
A/C and hot tub) as if nothing happened.
The most power you can draw from a 120V, 20A oulet is 1,820 watts. A
typical toaster oven is 1,600 watts. A typical range element is 3,000 watts.
Yep, and resistive heating elements like this generally draw very close
to their rated wattage. Other appliances, like radios, TVs, etc. usually
don't draw as much current as their tags indicate. I've actually had
occasion to measure this and they seem to draw about 2/3 what the tag
says. I'm not saying this is true for everything, just some random stuff
I have measured. It's good to have a little built-in margin.
Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.
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