It is a very common question to ask how to convert watts to amps. First of all, you have to know that you can’t convert watts to amps or amps to watts because watts are made of power and amps are what everybody knows: coulombs per second (It’s like if we wanted to convert gallons to miles). But this isn’t all, if you have some of them: amps, volts and watts then you can make some calculations. What did you learn at school? easy
- Current x Potential Difference= Power
- Power / Potential Difference = Current
- Power / Current Potential Difference
And we can focus on the different formulas
- Amps x Volts = Watts
- Watts / Volts = Amps
- Watts / Amps = Volts
Are you following? good. Lets go for an explanation: As we know amps are the number of electrons that go past a certaint point every second. Volts is a metric of the force level that each electron is supporting. Lets think of an example, water in a hose. If we go for a gallon every minute (Amps baby, amps) if its under low pressure it will dribble out (low voltage baby). What would happend if you restric the end of the hose so the pressure can go up? The water will be powerful (Watts), We don’t care if it is one gallon per minute. Obviously this has been all tested.
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