OK, I've read the entire thread, and I cannot speak for the actual devices being discussed, but for the non-mathematical out there, let me try to explain... We are considering AC-Alternating Current- in which the voltage is constantly varying from a positive peak value to a negative peak value, and back again, in a smooth curve called a Sine wave. If the load is resistive, like a water heater or even a standard light bulb, the peak voltage and peak current occur at the same instant, so the (peak) power is the product of these two. VA=Watts, PF=1 In an inductive load, the peak current occurs later than the voltage peak, so the current is lower when the voltage is max, and the voltage is lower when the current is max. Since voltmeters and ammeters do not know about each other, they will both read a value (the RMS value, which is similar to an "average) related to the peak of each parameter, but the actual product or real power at any given instant is less than the product of the two peak values since they do not peak at the same time. For a capacitive load, the current peak occurs before the voltage peak, but the result is the same, since the peak voltage and peak current do not occur at the same instant. The product of the two independent meter readings is Volts * Amps, or volt-amps. The actual product of all the instantaneous values is Watts. The power factor is the ratio of these two, and can never be greater than 1. I hope this is useful in helping understanding of AC power.

I found something about him ! If you click on this link and scroll to the bottom of the newspaper sections you will find a portion of a column written by CVR Thompson, NY Correspondent for the London Daily News...1941. In reading his book I LOST MY ENGLISH ACCENT, I found his real time experiences with FDR and Hitler to be so interesting since he had no idea what was to come and was simply writing about what he saw and heard. Here is a link that might be useful: CVR THOMPSON article

See, there are more of us out there!! :) I couldn't apologize for it if I wanted to, I simply had to have that book. I loved it and still do. There are some books we come across that we read and enjoy and let drift on, then there are others where the characters speak, you hear their voices (so to speak), smell the air where they are in the story and are immersed in the sounds from cover to covers end. Am I Jewish? No. All I know is that I wanted to sit beneath the terebinth tree at the home of Shimeon Ben Gamaliel and listen to the teacher speak, break bread and dip with others. I have tried looking up Shimeon Ben Gamaliel on google and yahoo and have found Shimeon, but not with the rest of the name. Also, have never been able to come across a title Howard Fast used of 'Nashi'. Can anyone help? If so, thank you so much! Kim p.s. There is a point in the story where Berenice is distraught over the course her husband is taking and recites to him the words of his father. It moved me so much as young as I was, that I wrote it on the cover of all my notebooks in school. You know, I had teachers in English and Social Studies read it and no one thought to ask why I had it. It began 'Who diminishes another, diminishes me...'. Can anyone recall the rest?

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