Comments on: Lies, Damn Lies and Cheap Power Meters

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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:45:23 +0000

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By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:32:29 +0000

Those Power Factor numbers for the SI are weird. .16 is impossibly low. I wonder what’s going on there?

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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:59:22 +0000

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By: LT

LT — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:13:57 +0000

The ATA made Electus (Jaycar’s wholesale division) fully aware of the problem, we returned close to 20 of these meters. Their response was ‘oh, it was just the first batch’. This was complete garbage of course, my general feeling having dealt with them over the years is they simply don’t give a stuff, so long as they make sales…

By: Munter

Munter — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:03:34 +0000

Very dissapointing indeed. Do you think Jaycar could be pressed to recall the meters?