Nubo said:
SageBrush said:
...I'm always amused by home heating and cooling conventions in Btu. The actual unit being measured is Btu/hour....
This use of BTU is one of the reasons it finally dawned on me that the general public probably wasn't going to bother with the distinction between kW and kWh. For them it's just a way of saying "how big". How "big" is the battery, how "big" is the charger. One unit to rule them all. :lol:
This isn't entirely incorrect. If a device outputs power at a fixed average or maximum rate, then using that rate as a per hour total doesn't really change comparisons among similar devices. As long as you stay in the same unit of measure, the numbers stay the same, relative to each other. If furnaces, say, were sold in categories like BTU/Hour, BTU/Half hour, etc, then it would get dicey, but a 35k BTU furnace is the same as a 35k BTU/Hour furnace, so the number works for comparison, even if technically incorrect.