Hey folks,
Long time since I've been around. I was recently out on a gig and we were using a CAT generator with a motionlabs power distro. I asked the generator owner if the unit was set for 208v 3ph and he grunted and looked annoyed that I would insult his intelligence. I tied in and powered up only to find that he was set to 480v 3ph. After shutting down, reconfiguring and retesting my voltage, I noticed my motionlabs voltage/current meter in the top of the unit wasn't powering on. The distro still worked fine and I got power to all of my devices, but nothing would show up on the motionlabs meter. I had trouble in the past with the unit reading current poorly, but it always powered on at least.
So, question time. Did I permanently fry my motionlabs meter? Is there a protection device inside that is easily reset or replaced? Or do I need to just suck it up and buy a new meter?
Thanks!
Long time since I've been around. I was recently out on a gig and we were using a CAT generator with a motionlabs power distro. I asked the generator owner if the unit was set for 208v 3ph and he grunted and looked annoyed that I would insult his intelligence. I tied in and powered up only to find that he was set to 480v 3ph. After shutting down, reconfiguring and retesting my voltage, I noticed my motionlabs voltage/current meter in the top of the unit wasn't powering on. The distro still worked fine and I got power to all of my devices, but nothing would show up on the motionlabs meter. I had trouble in the past with the unit reading current poorly, but it always powered on at least.
So, question time. Did I permanently fry my motionlabs meter? Is there a protection device inside that is easily reset or replaced? Or do I need to just suck it up and buy a new meter?
Thanks!