Dirty Electric
How would I know or test if a generator was putting out the wrong frequency or "dirty" electricity? (recently changed oil, new plug, new air filter, cleaned out carburetor best I could... wondering...
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Matt_Colie wrote:
Path,
That is supposed to be an inverter generator. That means that it uses a computer to artificially create the power wave shape. If it is working at all, it is probably in spec, but it is probably not "clean" power. The instruments to tell if it is clean are both rare and expensive.
Matt
$50 says you are wrong.
Thats a handheld Oscilloscope which can be bought for under $50 HERE
Good enough bandwidth to see distortion, misformed waveforms and spikes along with gives you frequency and peak to peak voltage of the 60Hz waveform all in one package.
