How does a hairdryer produce 1500 watts?

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Merlin3189 said:
I don't have much beyond Paint for drawing, since Windows left my versions of Corel and Autosketch behind.
I'm running 64 bit windows 7 professional which let's you setup and run a virtual 16 bit XP mode machine. See; I can use my Autosketch program inside of windows 7.

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Tom.G said:
Probably because a Physics bent and an Artistic bent tend to be disjoint sets... then there are those Mathematicians hangin' around too! :wink:
(besides, pictures are a lot of work)
Challenge accepted!
1 coil using outputting 1 Watt, total resistance 1 Ohm
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Two coils, each outputting 1 watt, total output 2 Watts, total resistance 0.5 Ohms
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Three coils outputting 1 Watt each. Total output 3 Watts. Total resistance 0.333... Ohms
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