Mr Four Square wrote:Oz Kev Did you run the controller and element through the energy monitor and get a useful result?
I hadn't but I just happen to be heating some water up.
So I plugged my Voltage controller in and also the meter.
Volts on controller = 220v.
Current on meter = 2246w
Dropped the voltage to where I do a product run which just happens to be exactly half.
Volts on controller = 110v.
Current on meter = 1121w, then climbed to 1150w (The climb in watts is due to as the element cools resistance decreases)
Also tried 60v
Volts on controller = 60v.
Current on meter = 610w
At 50v, not sure what happened. The meter still worked but it must be below the voltage for the meter to read?
Volts on controller = 50v.
Current on meter = 0w
Side notes:
The Belkin meter doesn't display Voltage.
Also after 45mins the meter changes from current watts to an average watts, so we would need to unplug it for a sec.