DIY OG Solar install

lexity said:
Can't be.

The rating is what it uses over an hour of transfer.

So it's not 'using 2kw every second' or 'all the time'. It's pulling 2kwh all the time.

It's using/pulling 2000/3600 every second. A little over half a watt. Even I know that. It's a rate of transfer. And all rates of transfer are 'respective of time'.

So my layman's way of putting it is that 'peak draw' is obviously referring to a physical limit (some kind of breaker) that is measured in amps, but responds to heat prior to the effect that an unacceptable predicted load being transferred at any instant in time will have. Traditionally it is heat melting a thinner or lower-gauge wire.
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Read the first post on the thread link I posted above
 
lexity said:
There is no way any person alive on this planet will use 3000w running his 3000w kettle for 3 minutes.

Not sure where you bought your license.

Probably a government rubber-stamp, where you don't have to watch what you say.
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That is exactly what will happen. However your post indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of a watt.
 
soulie said:
lexity ,thanks youve made my day .we havent laughed so much in a long time
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I don't know how you're going to get out out of this one.

Please tell all of us noobs our kettles will use 3kw if we switch it on for 3 minutes.

Annnd go...

:giggle:
 
lexity said:
I don't know how you're going to get out out of this one.

Please tell all of us noobs our kettles will use 3kw if we switch it on for 3 minutes.

Annnd go...

:giggle:
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how much would you like it to use ,1 kw ,ok there you go ,1 kw it is .at first i thought you were joking but now i realise you really are clueless .you need to get some literature and do some research .whats going on in your head isnt helping you .
 
soulie said:
how much would you like it to use ,1 kw ,ok there you go ,1 kw it is .at first i thought you were joking but now i realise you really are clueless .you need to get some literature and do some research .whats going on in your head isnt helping you .
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As I suspected.... you won't - or can't - explain it.
 
lexity said:
I don't know how you're going to get out out of this one.

Please tell all of us noobs our kettles will use 3kw if we switch it on for 3 minutes.

Annnd go...

:giggle:
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Ai tog, it will use 0.15kwh, at any given time it will be drawing 3kw for those 3min (more or less, maybe more during startup and less during the final boil, unfortunately I don't have the power curve of your kettle)
 
lexity said:
I don't know how you're going to get out out of this one.

Please tell all of us noobs our kettles will use 3kw if we switch it on for 3 minutes.

Annnd go...

:giggle:
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You still haven't read the linked post, have you?
 
lexity said:
I don't know how you're going to get out out of this one.

Please tell all of us noobs our kettles will use 3kw if we switch it on for 3 minutes.

Annnd go...

:giggle:
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It will draw 3 kilowatts to power the kettle's element.

It will consume around 0.15 killowatt hours over the 3min period. ((3000/60)*3)/1000

Whats so hard to understand?
 
Iwojima said:
It will draw 3 kilowatts to power the kettle's element.

It will consume around 0.16 killowatt hours over the 3min.

Whats so hard to understand?
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That's exactly what I've been saying all along. Except I said approx 150 watts will be used.

Gatekeepers luuuuurve to split hairs.
 
lexity said:
That's exactly what I've been saying all along. Except I said approx 150 watts will be used.
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Which is incorrect. 3000 Watts will be used. Approximately 150 Watt-hours will also be used. There is no way you can power that 3kW kettle with a 500W inverter, even if you are only using it for 3 minutes.
 
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