Brand Meter [RE-wrenches]

Bob-O Schultze, Electron Connection econnect at snowcrest.net
Mon Feb 12 08:58:07 PST 2001


<x-flowed>Hiya Group,
FYI, I emailed Ethan Brand about Kurt's basically DOA machine. He 
sent this back within hours:
"Ok Bob-O, we'll take care of it."
It's the  kind of service we all appreciate.
Bob-O

>
>I just got my very first Brand meter (thanks Bob-O) and toasted it on
>the first day.  Has anyone had any similar problems?  The instructions
>say that it is okay to already have a load plugged into the meter when
>it is then plugged into an outlet.  It also says that square wave can be
>used with the meter.  It seemed to work okay at first, but then started
>having display problems when I turned on a load that brought a U series
>inverter out of search (meter saw lower start up voltages).  This seemed
>to clear up when I repowered the circuit with the inverter up, but I
>later noticed the meter reading 15 times more watts than actual, which
>is all that it has done since.  It is model 4-1850DR  -- Kurt Nelson
>

Bob-O Schultze, Electron Connection
PO Box 203, Hornbrook, CA 96044
800.945.7587 fax 530-475-3401
www.electronconnection.com

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