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Re: [Amps] Time for New Power Meter

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Time for New Power Meter
From: Bill Turner <dezrat@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 21:38:01 -0700
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On Mon, 04 May 2015 08:09:47 +0800, you wrote:

>Might I be allowed to suggest that Accuracy +/- 5% of Full Scale Power" 
>means that the best accuracy they guarantee is that 5% at full scale.
>
>At lower readings, it may still be 5% or it might be a little more. 
>Whatever the figure might be, to cover their ass, the manufacturer is 
>not going to make any guarantees other than at full scale.
>
>To suggest +/- 125 Watts anywhere on the scale, for a 2500 Watt range,  
>simply does not make sense and it would make a total mockery of the 
>using the instrument as a power measuring device.
>
>73, Alek.
>VK6APK

REPLY:

Perfectly stated. Thank you, Alek.

73, Bill W6WRT
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