Refrigerator and Amps/hrs
Ok Ok maybe this question has been asked before but I haven't found the answers I'm looking for. A typical RV dual power refrigerator (electric/propane) how much Amps/hours does one consume when ru...
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2oldman wrote:icanon wrote:
If I may continue to ask:
A) if someone requires 0.5 amp-hour what exactly does that mean for a 24 hrs period?
is the answer 12 amp-hrs?.
I gave an example above.
The answer is yes. If something draws 0.5 amps, continuously, and runs for one hour, that's 0.5 ah.
0.5 ampere drawn for 1 hour is one half amp-hour. So is 0.25 amp drawn over 2 hours. The stickler reason it's not "amp/hr" is because the "/" means "divided by". And amp-hr is not "divided by", it's multiplied.
Thanks for clearing that up.
