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pritch272
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May 27, 2010

The Official unofficial CPE 2000i Generator Thread

8/1/2010 edit: Thread renamed at the suggestion of the Professor. Renamed from: Champion Inverter and Remote Gens Promo on CPE's web site) 3/22/2011 edit: Thread renamed ... Renamed from: Officia...
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MrRchitty
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Feb 02, 2015
You need a clamp style meter to measure the amps by clamping one of the wires inside the casing.
The ratings on the appliances are the max possible usage. You are also measuring on resistive loads which don't have the surge that an inductive load does.

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