On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:05:21 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>
>> You try talking about Volt amps in a shop and I wish you well :)
>
>Trying to explain to me how Volt Amps is different from Watts would 
>probably be a bigger challenge. :-P

Volt amps takes into account the phase difference between the volts
and the current. As you know then you pass an ac current through a
capacitor or an inductor there is a phase difference. Volt amps is V *
cos(phase) *A.
Simple, What?
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Regards
     Stephen

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