The first part is correct. 1 wh = 1 w used continuously for 60 minutes (1 hour). a watt hour is equivalent to 3600 joules.
A 'unit' is short for 'Board of Trade Unit' (formerly, the Government agency that used to regulate energy prices), and is used in the UK as an alternative name for a kilowatt hour and is, therefore, used to measure energy, NOT power. One thousand units, therefore, is equivalent to 1000 kWh.
I believe a kilowatt and a kilovolt-amp are mathematically equivalent units, but they are used in different contexts. Watts are used when talking about average or instantaneous power or "true" power. Volt-amps are used when talking about Apparent power.
Mega means million and a watt is a unit of power. A megawatt hour is the amount of power used if 1,000,000 watts are used for 1 hour, or 1 watt is used for 1,000,000 hours. If 100 light bulbs each using 1,000 watts of power are turned on for 10 hours, they will use 100 x 1,000 x 10 watt hours = 1,000,000 watt hours = 1 megawatt hour. Most electric companies charge for the number of kilowatt hours used. A megawatt hour is 1,000 kilowatt hours.
Answer: In SI, all forms of energy is measured in joules. An alternative, but non-SI, unit is the kilowatt-hour. A kW.h is equivalent to 3.6 million joules.In the UK, energy companies charge their consumers 'per unit', rather than 'per kilowatt hour'. In this context, a 'unit' is short for 'Board of Trade Unit', and is used to measure the consumption of electrical energy. A unit is exactly equal to a kilowatt hour, which is the amount of energy consumed, over a period of one hour, at a rate of one kilowatt.Answer: It depends what aspect of electricity you want to measure. The above answer is for energy; however, in electricity you also use other units including ampere (to measure current), volts (to measure voltage), ohms (to measure resistance or impedance), hertz (to measure frequency), and several others.
Wattmeters are used for the measurement of dielectric power loss. It is also useful for the calibration of commercial forms of wattmeter and watt-hour meter in laboratories.
A megawatt-hour (MWh) is a unit of energy equivalent to one megawatt (MW) of power used for one hour. It represents 1,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) and is commonly used to measure electricity generation or consumption. In practical terms, one MWh can power approximately 330 average U.S. homes for one hour.
You can't! Horsepower is the Imperial unit of measurement for power, whereas a kilowatt hour is used to measure energy -two different quantities! Your question is equivalent to asking, "How do you convert miles per hour into kilometres?"
Kilowatt-hour (KWh) which is an energy unit equivalent to a power of 1000 Watts running for 1 hour = 1000x3600 Joules =3.6million Joules. 1 kWh is sometimes called in the trade " 1 unit".
It depends on the power rating of the saw. If it is a 1 KW (Kilowatt) saw then it will use 1 KWH (Kilowatt hour) of electricity for every hour it is used. This is equivalent to 1 unit of electricity. If it is 500 W (Watt) then it will use half this. If it is 2 KW it will use double this.
A unit is not used to measure power, but energy.A unit is used by British electrical companies to measure energy consumption, and is short for 'Board of Trade Unit'. A unit is equivalent to a kilowatt hour. A watt, on the hand, is used to measure power, not energy -so you cannot relate a unit to a watt.
A 'unit' is short for 'Board of Trade Unit' (formerly, the Government agency that used to regulate energy prices), and is used in the UK as an alternative name for a kilowatt hour and is, therefore, used to measure energy, NOT power. One thousand units, therefore, is equivalent to 1000 kWh.
Yes, both kW (kilowatts) and BTU/h (British thermal units per hour) are units of power used to measure the rate of energy transfer. 1 kW is equivalent to 3412 BTU/h.
Kilowatt hour
A unit (as mentioned on the electricity bills) is represented in kWH or Kilowatt Hour. This is the actual electricity or energy used. If you use 1000 Watts or 1 Kilowatt of power for 1 hour then you consume 1 unit or 1 Kilowatt-Hour (kWH) of electricity.
One kilowatt (kW) is equivalent to 1,000 watts. In terms of energy consumption, one kilowatt-hour (kWh) represents the energy used when a device consumes one kilowatt of power for one hour. Therefore, 1 kW can be thought of as the power required to operate a device consuming 1,000 watts.
One horsepower (hp) is equivalent to approximately 2,545 British Thermal Units (BTU) per hour. This conversion is often used in heating and cooling applications to relate mechanical power to thermal energy. Therefore, if you have a power output of one horsepower, it can produce about 2,545 BTU of heat energy in one hour.
None. They are used to measure two different quantities. The BTU is used to measure energy while the megawatt is used to measure power. Two different units for measuring two different quantities.A Megawatt-hour is a measure of energy that is equivalent to about 3.45 million BTUs. Or 1 Megawatt is equivalent to 3.45 million BTU per hour.