Hour meter

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If he can't find you one, they've got a new line of very inexpensive panel hourmeters at Grainger - under $20. Several case form and voltage choices.

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Thanks Bruce

Couldn't find them searching their online catalog.

Search on 'hour' They are all listed at about $30 at

Quite a few listed at

Minor mis-speak - $27.20 mechanical, $28.60 LCD, without discounts. Cat 395 PP 454, for you 3AE14 or 3AE19 are the likely ones.

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If you have 220V AC then you also have 110V AC. Or am I missing something?

Shawn

Shawn

I'd expect the 110vac or the 220vac to be pretty colse to having 12 VDC if you have a diode and some resistors, since that meter draws such a low current.

Jerry

Not necessarily. Even if you're thinking about 220VAC + safety ground, the exceptions allowing you to use safety ground as a neutral are rather limited, and I don't think an hour meter is included in them. (Off the top of my head I can only think of dryer lights, and even there I cannot figure out why they don't use a 220V bulb.)

I want to believe that the dryer light bulb exception was included because a complaint that the bulb isn't working might make an electrician check the safety ground. If the hour meter is part of a warranty or maintenance contract then the customer may figure out how to defeat safety ground as a way to save money :-(

Tim.

$27.20 mechanical, $28.60 LCD, cheap enough for brand new? ;-)

Grainger Cat 395 PP 454. 3AE10, 3AE22 et al.

The mechanical models take anything between 90 - 240 VAC, the LCD ones 32 - 277 VAC. Wide enough range for you?

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Good point.

Shawn