So here’s what I came up with on my little experiment last night. I made a box and inserted a current probe from a power monitor meter i had laying around. One of those multifunction panel meters that shows line voltage, Freq, PF, Current and Wattage. I monitored the meter through the cycles and recorded the readings (see below). BTW power factor was near unity most of the time, .98-.99. At times it dipped to about .96 but I do not know how accurate this cheesy little meter is.
THE SETUP:
THE RESULTS:
