Check this out. Says you can't use more than 80% of the breakers in a panel board. Really Fluke?
http://bit.ly/18Ymz0D
http://bit.ly/18Ymz0D
Fluke. WOW
- Thread starter vicdog
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
I assume they are talking about continuous loads..
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- Illinois
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- retired electrician
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
I did not read it all so I was only reacting to the 80%. Obviously the 8 of 10 breakers is a joke...who writes this stuff. Seriously, it almost seems like a joke.
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- San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
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- Electrical Engineer
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.
ptonsparky
Tom
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- EC - retired
I read it on the Internet, so it has to be true.
ptonsparky
Tom
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- EC - retired
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 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.
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- Illinois
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- retired electrician
I tend to agree...when the technical marketing information is so far off, it really makes me wonder about the products that company makes.
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- Wisconsin
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- PE (Retired) - Power Systems
Imagine the slamming this would cause if the company was not a US favorite.
ptonsparky
Tom
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- EC - retired
I made an attempt via their web site to contact them. Dealing with that is another nail in the coffin.
K8MHZ
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- Electrician
FORMER US favorite here since they have been making their meters in China.
Fulthrotl
~Autocorrect is My Worst Enema.~
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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
Batteries Included
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- United States
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- Technician
Half the stuff I run into, even from what ought to be reputable sources is either partly correct or completely false.
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
So did I--- was not user friendly and they don't want to hear from us, IMO.
fmtjfw
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MBA and Food Science degrees
Fluke President
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/wes-pringle/6/356/b10
MBA and Food Science degrees
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.
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.
K8MHZ
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- Electrician
It also looks like he has a hard time holding down a job for much more than a year.
ptonsparky
Tom
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- EC - retired
Barely there long enough to find the RRs.
Someone have a membership to linkdin.com?
I don't want another place sending me good information I don't want or need.
zog
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- Charlotte, NC
I'm a French model
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