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BobnSofi
Explorer
Feb 12, 2019

Electric Heater lowers Voltage ??? HARMFUL ???

Hi All, we are full timing and use and electric space heater. This causes a voltage drop (according to the cheap voltage meter plugged into a bathroom outlet). The space we are in has 50amp, 30a...
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road-runner
Explorer III
Feb 12, 2019
As dougrainer stated a couple of pages ago, the plug-in analog meters are not accurate. I consider the readings from them close to worthless, and would not base any conclusions on them. It's not an analog-vs-digital meter thing. It's just that most plug-in analog meters have lousy accuracy. Use a digital meter, or a good analog meter.

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