RE: Re: Electrisave Monitoring Device - A small review

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sure it would be very easy...

...however whether it would be in any way reliable, accurate or repeatable
is a completely different matter.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Chris Hunter
> Sent: 16 January 2006 22:36
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Electrisave Monitoring Device - A small
review
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> 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 ... ?
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> Chris
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> gearboxgraeme wrote:
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> > 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 - =A320 from Maplin - quite happy with it, bought
when it
> > was =A340.
> >
> http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=3D32678&criteria=3Dmultimete=
r&doy
> =3D16m1
> >
> <http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=3D32678&criteria=3Dmultimet=
er&do
> y=3D16m1>
> >
> > Product code is N84AB if the link gets corrupted.
> >
> > Im going to link this with an add-on clamp meter from
Eurobatteries
> > for =A316.95 plus =A32.95 postage ( so why have I just ordered
=A350 of
> > stuff from them ? )
> >
> http://www.eurobatteries.com/sitepages/description1.asp?id=3D2140&cat=3DM=
eters
> >
> <http://www.eurobatteries.com/sitepages/description1.asp?id=3D2140&cat=3D=
Meter
> s>
> >
> > Will post again when this comes and Ive had a chance to play with
it.
> >
> > Cheers - Graeme
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