air dryer power
2019-Jan-11, Friday 16:48![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
At the place I'm staying now, there's a hair dryer prominently labeled as 1875 Watts. That's... a lot. A 5000 BTU/hour window air conditioner is 1465 Watts. Small and effective [1] space heaters are often 1000 or 1500 Watts. No wonder hair dryers can trip breakers.
[1] Unless trying to heat a cavernous and leaky basement on low power.
[1] Unless trying to heat a cavernous and leaky basement on low power.
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