I get it!

Again! It's happened again! I just figured out something that's had me stumped for years: the difference between wattage and amperes and voltage. (Hey, I didn't say it was a difficult concept, just that I'd always had trouble with it.)

Volts are like, uh ... you know, like how much. And amps are like, well, sort'a like how much, too. And if you, um ... take pi times the square root of the hypotenuse ... or something ... you get watts, I think. (I didn't say I could explain it, just that I figured it out. For myself. It's personal. Very private. I'm sure you understand)

OK, let's look at it like this; it's more familiar territory - -

Take two bottles of the same kind of booze. Just to avoid confusion, we'll say it's rye whiskey. One bottle is 80 proof (meaning 40% alcohol), the other is 100 proof (50% alcohol).

- Volts -

The proof amount is the voltage.

- Amps - 

How hard you're slugging
it down is the amperage.

- Watts -

And the effect it has

on you is the wattage.

Works for me.

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