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[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, September 17, 2010 07:57 AM, Vic Main wrote:
> 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.
>

The thing is, it did read 2xx before so unless I had major problems 
before...