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Jraef

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...who writes this stuff.
Marketing people...
From my experience, an Engineer likely wrote up an accurate description but it was "too wordy", so some marketing monkey cleaned it up for them. I'd even go on to think the Engineer likely protested after reading how they had hacked it, but was ignored. Happened to me several times.
 

don_resqcapt19

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That is really to bad. Those details are enough to make me buy elsewhere.

I have had good luck with the Fluke meters and standardized on T-Pro testers so we are all dealing in apples when taking measurements.


A real shame.
I tend to agree...when the technical marketing information is so far off, it really makes me wonder about the products that company makes.
 

Fulthrotl

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Imagine the slamming this would cause if the company was not a US favorite.

i've got a bunch of fluke products, but i'm looking elsewhere, going forward.

at this point, they are burning up the equity in the fluke brand, releasing
endless new products for which no need exists.

then there is pricing.

then there is the spam machine of fluke online, that you can't
unsubscribe from.

i'm not buying any more of their crap till they quit spamming me.
it's been two years now.... no new stuff.

i needed a network cable certifier. no fluke for me... the price alone
will cause a conniption fit.

bought an excellent one that does full certification on gigabit eithernet,
and is fast and effortless.

$425 plus tax.

fluke has one that will do the same thing for about $7,000. i'm pretty done
with fluke at this point, after 40 years of their products.
 

mbrooke

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If it is a 100-amp panel that contains 10 breakers, no more than eight should be in operation. The NEC stipulates that a panel cannot exceed 80 percent of its rated capacity


Half the stuff I run into, even from what ought to be reputable sources is either partly correct or completely false.
 

steve66

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I really don't think the article tells us "how" to do a panel study, even though that's in the title.

Even if it did give details, I don't know anything in the Code that would allow a 1 or 2 day current monitoring to be used in a load calc.
 
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