Xant Dewit – Your posts are always very interesting, and I always understand your words 🙂
Today I spent some time trying to track down information on the surge watts (a/k/a startup watts) of electricity needed for the Mockmill 100 and the Mockmill 200. I called and spoke with staff at both Pleasant Hill Grain and Breadtopia. They didn’t know the answer but said they will try to find out for me.
Then I did some online research about surge watts and found an article that said if you take the “Locked Rotor Amp” (LRA) number listed on the sticker usually found on the bottom or back of an electrical appliance and multiply it by the voltage needed for that appliance, that will tell you its surge watts. If that’s true then maybe I can just ask a couple of people who each has one of those mills already to read me the LRA number from the label on their Mockmill and figure it out myself. I know they both use 110 volts.
I did learn that the Mockmill 100 and 200 models both make essentially the same amount of noise when grinding grain, and both grind grains into flour that is essentially the same degree of fineness.