{"id":172,"date":"2011-02-02T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/?p=172"},"modified":"2011-02-18T10:15:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:15:36","slug":"how-to-calculate-btu-from-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/2011\/02\/02\/how-to-calculate-btu-from-watts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Calculate BTU from Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This post came about because I got a lot of hits from people looking for this information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/2008\/07\/28\/calculate-server-btu-output\/\">How To Calculate Server Heat<\/a> post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>1 Watt will produce 3.412 BTU per hour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To calculate the BTU\/heat output of an electrical system, substitute BTUs for Watts and use the following equation:<\/p>\n<p><strong><code>BTU\/h = (V * I) * 3.412<\/code><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where:<br \/>\n<code>V = Volts<\/code><br \/>\n<code>I = Amperes (Amps or Current)<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Using the simple math above, we can calculate the heat produced by an appliance on a 120v (US Standard) system drawing 2 Amps for 60 minutes (1 hour).<\/p>\n<p><strong><code>BTU\/h = 3.412 * (120 * 2) = 818.88BTU<\/code><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did you find this post useful or have questions or comments?  Please let me know!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post came about because I got a lot of hits from people looking for this information on the How To Calculate Server Heat post. 1 Watt will produce 3.412 BTU per hour To calculate the BTU\/heat output of an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/2011\/02\/02\/how-to-calculate-btu-from-watts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-do-stuff"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}