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In Reply to: What is a watt? posted by bsmoove1 on August 6, 2008 at 19:12:25:
No need to get real technical here. Think of a watt as an amount of electricity being consumed for some purpose, like a light bulb. Your house wiring can support about 1500 watt load before the breaker trips. The power capability coming into your house is about 44,000 watts. What power a particular device consumes depends upon what it is.
The power conditioner is being inserted between a 1500 watt capacity source and your equipment which is the load. The transformer in the conditioner is built to have a certain capacity, limited by both its wire size and iron core size. Since both of these commodities are costly, they are built in different sizes for different applications and budgets. If you overload the transformer, you simply run the risk of overheating it, perhaps with some fire danger.
Every piece of equipment, by law, must have noted on it somewhere its power consumption. Small signal solid state devices, such as players, preamps, turntables use typically less than 50 watts each. Power devices, like amps, tape decks, tube equipment use considerably more. Amp power consumption is linked to the loudness of the music and nature of the load. But one thing always is true: a watt of sound translates into a watt required to run the amp. Actually, due to power circuit inefficiencies, you can at least double that number.
Hope this helps.
Robert
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