On Thu, 02 Feb 2006, Achilleas Kotsis wrote: > Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > I just found this one - A window-installed unit, according to > > this. It weighs 0.5 tons, and the price is 1694 pesos +taxes > > (15%): > > Net weight: 26 Kg > > So it does not weight 0.5 tons (500Kg), just 26Kg. Or maybe a ton in > Mexico is something else :)
In the US, cooling capacity is given in the cooling you get from a ton of ice melting in one 24 hour period; one ton is about 12000 BTU, or ~3.5kW for those not stuck in non-SI lands. Don Armstrong -- Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p251 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
