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Skipper7

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I have a 5 foot 6 bulb T5 light fixture and plugged it into a killawatt and it read 248 watts and it was pulling a little over 4 amps plugged into a normal wall outlet, I then plugged in a diy led and it read 200 watts and 1.6 amps, can someone explain this please?
 
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That 248 watt T5 should be drawing 2 Amps from the 120 Vac wall outlet. I don't have a Killawatt. Does the Killawatt reading change if you move the T5 away from the Killawatt?
 
Skipper7 said:
I have a 5 foot 6 bulb T5 light fixture and plugged it into a killawatt and it read 248 watts and it was pulling a little over 4 amps plugged into a normal wall outlet, I then plugged in a diy led and it read 200 watts and 1.6 amps, can someone explain this please?
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Its very inefficient.
 
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