If the appliance tells you how many watts it's supposed to use you can buy a watt-meter to measure how many watts the appliance is using buy plugging in the meter into the wall and then plugging the appliance into the meter. A popular brand is "Kill A Watt", it meter can be bought on E-bay for under $25.
Look on the appliance's nameplate. All appliances have one. There it will tell you what the amperage is. If not the amperage then it will tell you the watts the appliance uses. Use the following equation to find the amperage if the nameplate only states the watts. Amps = Watts/Volts. This will tell you what the amperage of the appliance is.
Typically 75 amps on natural gas, 85 amps using propane. Peak amps(for less than a second) to start a big appliance, like an A/C condenser, are 130.
1.9 amps
At what voltage? When you know the voltage then, to get the amps those kilovolt-amps contain, you simply divide the kilovolt-amps by the voltage.
500,000 watts/240 volts = 2,083.34 Amps (single phase)
Amps are not directly convertible to horse power, which is a measure of power. Power is current times voltage. Therefore on a 240 v supply, 40 amps equals 9600 watts. One horse power is 746 watts.
Typically 75 amps on natural gas, 85 amps using propane. Peak amps(for less than a second) to start a big appliance, like an A/C condenser, are 130.
Typically 75 amps on natural gas, 85 amps using propane. Peak amps(for less than a second) to start a big appliance, like an A/C condenser, are 130.
how many amps flow thruogh a 2400 watt appliance plugged into a 120 volt outlet
1.9 amps
more that 30
At what voltage? When you know the voltage then, to get the amps those kilovolt-amps contain, you simply divide the kilovolt-amps by the voltage.
The number that is on a breaker is the amount of amperage that the breaker can deliver before it trips. This is the same regardless of how many poles the breaker is.
500,000 watts/240 volts = 2,083.34 Amps (single phase)
The heater should have a wattage rating (very few list amps). Calculate the amps using the wattage and voltage. Amps = Watts/Volts(480).
Amps are not directly convertible to horse power, which is a measure of power. Power is current times voltage. Therefore on a 240 v supply, 40 amps equals 9600 watts. One horse power is 746 watts.
The amps will be the same. Volts will depend on between which two points you're measuring it.
If you know the voltage you can calculate the amps. . Ampere I = power P / voltage V .