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ELECTRICAL PRINCIPLES · Math for electronics: conversion of electrical units, decibels

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Which decibel value represents a power increase from 20 watts to 200 watts?

  1. A10 dB
  2. B12 dB
  3. C18 dB
  4. D28 dB
Why Decibels compare two power levels using dB = 10 log10(P2/P1). Going from 20 W to 200 W is a ratio of 10, and log10(10) = 1, so the result is 10 dB. A factor of 10 in power is always 10 dB, no matter what the starting wattage is.
Watch out The larger values like 18 dB or 28 dB would mean much bigger ratios (about 63 times and 630 times the power); people sometimes pick them by wrongly subtracting or adding the watt numbers instead of taking the ratio.
Power times 10 = +10 dB, times 2 = +3 dB, half = -3 dB, tenth = -10 dB.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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