Maximum current including reactive components or not?
Thanks for that Mike, it gives a much more useful indication of what you can expect than the Aldi write up!
Based on your description I would say the Maplin one probably has the edge - in that it seems to handle inductive loads like fridges etc quite well. Still not accurate on very low powers or low power factors, although it does give a steady reading.
Yes, it can display maximum current but no breakdown into components.
Reset by holding in one of the buttons for three secs - but for the life of me I can't remember which.
Yes, it turns out that press and hold the down arrow clears the maximum values though I can't find it anywhere in the instructions. It only seems to mention press and hold "price" to clear the accumulated costs.
A couple of years ago, when I had the site supervisors job at the local primary school a totally deaf electrician came with a clamp meter to measure which phase to connect the new air conditioning to.
Air con lads cam down. Fitted the units and wired it up to the nearest available phase. So like you, I can't see what use they are :-)
Dave
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