Posted by John T on December 16, 2013 at 14:22:45 from (216.249.76.176):
In Reply to: Re: JohnT? posted by George Marsh on December 16, 2013 at 07:05:20:
Hey George, I, as you know, meant no offense with the "curious George" nickname. Heck I'm curious as a cat myself and seems my kids years ago watched a cartoon about some curious George, character, but I'm not sure.
Not having your meter or any specs or anything at all, its still my "best guess" you're correct, it sees the amperage which would be that if you had a unity one power factor, which means it does NOT see the vector sum of the resistive current component flow PLUS the Inductive (out of phase if not corrected) component. The electric company watt hour meter doesn't take power factor into consideration far as I know (44 years ago Duncan Meter Co gave a talk in our EE school but Ive slept since then) HOWEVER at the place I worked they still monitored Power Factor (even if meter didn't show) and charged us a huge penalty if we were off Unity by too much........
Tell you what, my friend the good Buick man (unlike long retired me) is very active in this business and knows this power factor stuff better then me, but its still my guess your meter DOES NOT SEE or take power factor or out of unity power factor current into consideration. See what he and the other more current in the practice sparkies have to say NO WARRANTY on my best guesses about how your particular meter works.
See, Im as curious as you are and always willing to learn.......
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