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a VA is basically equivalent to a watt for most purposes so a KVA being 1000 VA, a KVA is basically 1000 W.

However, 1 KVA = 1KW only holds true for resistive loads. If an AC power supply is running a motor or other very inductive load, KVA can be significantly higher than the power being used by the motor.


The theory and mathematics of inductive loads are too complex to describe here but knowledge of inductive loads on AC supplies is one of the fundamentals of electrical engineering

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