Flourescent lamp -Wasting Power?

Dec 19, 2004 20 Replies

Electric company power meters are much, much more accurate in general. The cheap 'plug in' digital meters may be inaccurate as at least some of them simply don't sample fast enough, and can get confused by unexpectedly shaped waveforms.

All of them will be nearly accurate on things like heaters and motors. However, for some switch-mode power supplies, they fail badly.

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