UK nominal voltage

[RF Lighting]

Found it

 

[JohnW2]

View attachment 160037 Found it

Well done - I imagine that it took a bit of finding

Kind Regards, John

 

[Risteard]

It's quite common here. Indeed the Six Counties was always traditionally 400/230V, with the 26-Counties 380/220V and Britain 415/240V.

 

[crystal ball]

Was it near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel ?

 

[securespark]

No, Chapel Allerton.

 

[securespark]

As an aside my 61557 has started measuring anything less than 0.5 Ohm as "<0.5Ω". I don't know why: any ideas?

 

[JohnW2]

As an aside my 61557 has started measuring anything less than 0.5 Ohm as "<0.5Ω". I don't know why: any ideas?

You mean it's changed? If so, have any firmware updates been installed?

Kind Regards, John

 

[securespark]

No, it hasn't been connected to any other equipment. Plain weird!

 

[RF Lighting]

I’ve had an odd occasion where my meter has started doing strange things due to me changing some settings without realising.

It’s possible to reboot the tester to factory defaults. I’ll have a look through the book and let you know what you need to do.

 

[securespark]

Cheers! I used to work with one but the one I have now doesn't have any destructions.

 

[bernardgreen]

0.5 Ohm as "<0.5Ω". I don't know why: any ideas?

Possibly a battery needs replacing, low battry affects the resistance measuring circuit

 

[securespark]

Yeah, thought of that. New batteries still the same issue!

 

[RF Lighting]

Hi Simon. Sorry for the delay in posting this. Hopefully it will work on your machine? @securespark

 

[JohnW2]

Hi Simon. Sorry for the delay in posting this. Hopefully it will work on your machine?

The issue which may arise there is that the apparent anomaly he was experiencing does not seem to be in that list of 'resettable settings' - although maybe it 'resets' more than it admits to. Hopefully it might!

Kind Regards, John

 

[ericmark]

As to the voltage note set line - earth does this mean it measures voltage line - earth as well as loop impedance?

Where I live volts were always 240 or more normally around 245 until there were a number of houses where solar panels were installed and then the volts dropped to 230, at this point my old fluorescent lamp 65 watt stopped working with 58 watt tubes, I converted to LED, in hind sight a mistake as lower output and they don't last as long as fluorescent tubes got around 18 months and most of that time house empty.

I will guess the volts were dropped so the solar panels do not lock out on over voltage?