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Default Measuring power consumption of immersion heater?

On 6 Oct, 09:23, (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:
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On 5 Oct, 23:51, Rumble wrote:
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When you measure the power factor, are you measuring it for the device
in question, or are you measuring the average for the neighbourhood?
A plug-in device can only measure it for the load running through it.


Are you suggesting it somehow compensates for the power factor of the
supply automatically?


Is this a trick question? The supply doesn't have a power factor; only
the load has a power factor.


It wasn't supposed to be a trick question. The supply has a power
factor by definition.


In which case you'll have to give your definition, because it
is meaningless with the standard definition of power factor.

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Well, it's not _my_ definition it's _the_ definition. Perhaps you
could Google for one?

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