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To: Doren who wrote (16183)	9/13/2016 2:50:48 PM
From: Eric	1 Recommendation Recommended By Doren Respond to of 16955

Forgot to reply to your post. Don't forget Power Factor correction for a lot of things that consume AC power. Only accurate when measuring a purely resistive load like a baseboard heater for instance. Refrigerators, power supplies for computers and lots of other things need to have a correction done to measure the actual power that is used. Inductive or capacitive reactance can effect things quite a bit. Peak current may not be at the same time as peak voltage on the AC waveform. That affects the power calculation. Your Visio TV is consuming less power than what you read. The KillaWatt meter is a good way to measure the actual power being used. Just have to do the corrections! I have a couple and use them all of the time. (edit) The instructions that came with the meter should explain it.