http://s.co.tt/2016/10/03/putting-a-line-voltage-multimeter-in-a-receptacle-box-va4k-vs-shogun-test/ Babblings of a computer curmudgeon. Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:21:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 http://s.co.tt/2016/10/03/putting-a-line-voltage-multimeter-in-a-receptacle-box-va4k-vs-shogun-test/#comment-3778 Sat, 08 Oct 2016 20:36:19 +0000 http://s.co.tt/?p=1703#comment-3778 I’m not an electrical engineer (wait, I am sorta). But I think the discrepancy in the current reading has to do with “power factor”. A motor can appear to use less power when you just multiply current and voltage. Because magic. Maybe the kilowatt factors that in.

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