On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:05:00 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from John Bachman contains these words:

According to my friends there the UK has a lot of odd things,
including standards. But I still think that it is a kilowatt.

mW = milliwatt
MW = megawatt

kw or KW or kW = 1000 watts
mW = milliwatt = 1/1000 watt
MW = megawatt = 1,000,000 watts

Someone asked who would need a milliwatt of power ... many transistor
and RF circuits would use very low powers.