Re: Re: Electrisave Monitoring Device - A small review

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How difficult, I wonder, would it be to make something up - some turms
of wire around some cardboard tube as a former a cable, connected to a
suitable DVM with RS232 or whatever ... and a few light-bulbs for
callibration ... ?

Chris

gearboxgraeme wrote:

> Ive looked at the messages where people have modified existing clamp
> meters ( of course I do this AFTER ordering a similar device myself ).
>
> Anyway, I looked on ebay for clamp meters with rs232 output. Couldnt
> see any that obviously had this. Only ones I could find on Farnell or
> RS were damn expensive ( found one in America that was $1200 - eek ).
>
> Anyway, Ive already got one of the Maplin Mastech 343 meters with
> RS232 output - £20 from Maplin - quite happy with it, bought when it
> was £40.
> http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=32678&criteria=multimeter&doy=16m1
> <http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=32678&criteria=multimeter&doy=16m1>
>
> Product code is N84AB if the link gets corrupted.
>
> Im going to link this with an add-on clamp meter from Eurobatteries
> for £16.95 plus £2.95 postage ( so why have I just ordered £50 of
> stuff from them ? )
> http://www.eurobatteries.com/sitepages/description1.asp?id=2140&cat=Meters
> <http://www.eurobatteries.com/sitepages/description1.asp?id=2140&cat=Meters>
>
> Will post again when this comes and Ive had a chance to play with it.
>
> Cheers - Graeme