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Re: Electricity meter monitoring



On Jan 23, 2008 9:42 PM, David Gumbrell <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On a related note, I started going round with a decent plug in meter
to try
> and understand the 600W apparent base load. I was surprised at how
many non
> unity power factor devices I have - this would make the readings from
purely
> current sensing devices inaccurate.

Might seem like a daft question, but what's a "non-unity power factor
device" ?

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