Re: Kill-A-Watt Meters

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Original poster: "Matthew Smith by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <matt-at-kbc-dot-net.au>

Hmm...

>These things appear in my experience not to be built too well for tesla use.
>Perhaps others have had better luck????

Makes me wonder - I have a semiconductor tester (identifies, gives 
parameters, etc) based on a Microchip PIC microcontroller; if the 
Kill-A-Watt uses similar technology, the 'noise' that a TC (of any type) 
throws back onto the supply could be enough to kill it off.

This seems to be very much a consumer product, so is unlikely to have been 
through 'hard knocks' industrial testing; I wonder how one would fare if it 
sat on the line side of an isolation transformer, and as far away from the 
strong EM fields as possible.

I still like the idea of the Kill-A-Watt - if nothing else, I could check 
to see if I need PFC on my beer fridge ;-)

Cheers

M


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