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Re: Electricity meter monitoring
David,
What do you mean by "non unity power factor devices" ?
On Jan 23, 2008 9:42 PM, David Gumbrell <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> You can get high current digital meters which you could put between
the
> meter and the CU, not cheap, but real power monitoring (accounts for
power
> factor). Or there are low current (20A/32A) power meters with pulse
output
> that you could use for individual circuits. Search the archives, this
has
> come up a few times, and there is also a current (ouch) discussion on
the
> automatedhome Idratek forum and a potential bulk buy ...
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
>
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