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Re: Electricity meter monitoring



Okay.... but this means what in practice?

That when my Electri-save meter says I'm using 800watts, but I have three
PC's on, it's not really 800 watts, more like 1000 watts?

Lee

On Jan 23, 2008 11:23 PM, Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>   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<david.gumbrell%40gmail.com>>
>
> > 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.
>


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