On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:47:10 -0600, Chris Friesen
wrote:

Charles Schuler wrote:
"Chris Friesen" wrote

Nope. You need a clamp-on ammeter around the wire going to the breaker.

Ummm, the circuit breaker is fed by a bus ... that you cannot clamp around.

The circuit has one wire attached to the breaker, and the other goes to
the neutral bus (assuming a 120V circuit). You can put a meter around
the wire that is connected to the breaker.

Are you seriously arguing about wether a wire goes "to" or "from" a
breaker? In an AC circuit where current flows both ways?


Consider that while current does flow both ways (or more correctly, is
ALTERNATING direction), POWER goes one way. "Direction" is useful
there.

Chris
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