Capacity Testing and 20 HR Rating
I'm thinking about doing a capacity test on my four GC2's. They have a 20hr rating of 215Ah. One thing I'm curious about is how the 20hr rating would have been determined. Being 6v, would they h...
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Salvo wrote:
Like a converter, the microwave takes power from an ac source only during peak amplitudes of the sinusoidal waveform. That means the ac current is quite a bit higher than you think. That also means the ac line loss will also be more than you think. It all goes to hell in a handbasket.
Just about everyone uses the Watt setting on a kil-a-watt meter when measuring power. That's the wrong setting. Use the VA setting to get true power.jrnymn7 wrote:
How would one go about that? And is it a combination of poor efficiency and line loss, or is one simply the result of the other?
Ah, yes... guilty as charged. I should have known better. Next time I will use the kill-a-watt meter, in VA mode, and compare to the Inverter's watts readout, and the Trimetric's amps readout.
And I've never tried using the kill-a-watt's PF function. Will it actually calculate, accurately, the PF of whatever is plugged into it?
