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Default Refrigerator current load

On 1/12/2020 5:43 PM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
I expect a large fridge to draw around 5 amps, but my clamp transformer
(on one wire of a broken-out extension cord of course) and Fluke
together say 830ma when the thing is running. Does that seem wrong? It
measures the toaster oven at 9.1A and the fridge light at 300ma.


Are sure that is not just a fan running without the compressor
running? It has to be more when the compressor runs.

Mikek