Re: [Debconf-team] Re: Infrastructure Meeting minutes

[Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>]

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
 
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