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Re: Electricity meter monitoring



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor

Chris


On 23 Jan 2008, at 23:16, Stuart Grimshaw wrote:

> 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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