voltage

[Vic Main]

At 04:26 PM 09/16/10, you wrote:
>On Friday, September 17, 2010 12:24 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > Den 2010-09-16 06:35:15 skrev terry l<xtlynne at charter.net>:
> >
> >> 311 volts is 220, peak to peak
> >>
> >
> > Yes, it is. So did someone ask this or why did you write that?
> >
>
>Terry has this knack of not responding in the thread concerned. My
>digital multimeter reports somewhere around 311V but I am supposed to be
>in a 220V environment. Maybe the battery is dead and so certain
>functions are not available and so I get the 3xxV figures.
Kind of off topic, but not all digital multi meters read AC RMS 
voltages correctly. The more expensive one's do i.e. Fluke, HP, 
Philips, Tektronix, etc.

Vic