New top Clamp Meter

Stop playing and do some work ;-)

....and before you say it....I can do 2 things at once.... :-)

Crazie I bought a multimeter a while ago and got my son to show me how to use it regarding voltage. When I asked him to show me the amp part he nicely said I need to do my apprenticeship on volts as amps was a bit dangerous.

Charming little bugger.

Regards Bob

Presume you got an AC/DC model clamp meter Crazie.

You should put the clamp around 1 single wire e.g. the cable going from alternator to car battery and it will read charging current etc.

Make sure clamp closes.

You can read quite low with those, like fridge current etc, without breaking into the circuit but it is important to get it round just the one dc wire and it doesn't matter much which.

With low current , have to press set or zero button to get accuracy.

Robin Miller

hmmmmmmmmm these have been around for ages....I remember at tech way way way back we had to as an exercise in stupidity measure the amperage in the catenary for the Watson's Bay Tram line and current drop when a tram was climbing the hill up past the Gap, then do the calculations to provide the crossection of wire needed to reduce the current drop. Now if memory serves the current pulled by a coupled set of O class trams (full of morning comutators) climbing the hill was in the order of 800 amperes@ 590 volts....If someone has an O class tram & can't get it to go then maybe replace the ribbon fuse which is located in a little metal box just above the running board near the number one end....
PTSD is an amazing thing, I can remember all that garbage but can't remember what I had for lunch....
many thanks for your indulgence...

yep they are good, which one did you buy ?