Hi all,
My clamp meter has 2 ranges, 200A and 1000A which I want to modify to be able to read currents from small home appliances, e.g. desk fans, kitchen mixers. But because of its large range it's useful only for measuring large appliances that consume 1amp and higher.
So to be able to read something in the range of a few milliamps to a max of say 10 amps I'm thinking of adding more windings to the clamp. I haven't opened it yet so I have no idea how many turns it has or how many turns would fit in the case.
Disregarding the physical size for the sake of discussion, if for example it has 100 turns and I add 100 times more wires will it read 100 times less?
So for the 200A range I want to change to 2A, and 1000A to 10A will it work?
My clamp meter has 2 ranges, 200A and 1000A which I want to modify to be able to read currents from small home appliances, e.g. desk fans, kitchen mixers. But because of its large range it's useful only for measuring large appliances that consume 1amp and higher.
So to be able to read something in the range of a few milliamps to a max of say 10 amps I'm thinking of adding more windings to the clamp. I haven't opened it yet so I have no idea how many turns it has or how many turns would fit in the case.
Disregarding the physical size for the sake of discussion, if for example it has 100 turns and I add 100 times more wires will it read 100 times less?
So for the 200A range I want to change to 2A, and 1000A to 10A will it work?