Kill-A-Watt power meter test - Input power measurement

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Jim,

Sounds too good to be true.  However, it IS true!!!

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/Kill-A-Watt/Kill-A-Watt.html

They are a bit hard to find at Radio Shacks so call first.  I worry a 
little about how they would like being next to a Tesla coil, but they seem 
basically very sound.

Cheers,

         Terry


At 08:16 PM 3/10/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>The "kill-a-watt" (that's the brand name) watt meter runs about $30-40 from
>all manner of sources (including Radio Shack), and measures VA, Watts, PF,
>etc. with an accuracy of better than 1%..
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 5:24 PM
>Subject: RE: Input power measurement
>
>
> > Original poster: "Skip Greiner by way of Terry Fritz
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <sgreiner-at-wwnet-dot-com>
> >
> > Hi Everyone
> > Thank to everyone who helped explain what I am actually measuring when
>using
> > an iron vane ammeter to check the input current to an NST running in
> > resonant mode.
> >
> > Now the question becomes...how does one measure the actual (RMS ?) input
> > current in order to calculate the wall plug watts? Must one purchase or
> > borrow a multi-buck wattmeter?
> >
> > Again thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> >