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Unread 09/13/2017, 09:56 PM   #2
kurt_n
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#1: UL listing from a $1 store. Yup. Who knows if it was even legit, or what the UL listing referred to. The place I work for just ran into an industrial supplier of electrical control boxes from China that was faking their UL listing. Surprise, surprise.

#2: Pretty easy to figure out the steady state amperage of the items hooked up to your EB8 if you know the Wattage of the devices. Total up the Watts and divide by 120 and you more or less get amps.

#3: You can always reset the zero for the amps. The Comprehensive Reference Guide gives you directions. It requires that you telnet into your controller.

#4: My guess is that you got saltwater in the 3 plug adapter, causing it to short/arc and meltdown. Either that, or the chiller startup current - which is probably more than the 10-12 amps of steady state operation - overloaded the cheapo plug adapter.


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