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On 03/05/2014 07:04 PM, mike wrote:
On 3/5/2014 3:31 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 3/5/2014 6:16 PM, Congoleum Breckenridge wrote:

http://www.quirky.com/blog/post/2014...oducing-reter/

I can't believe this will work, since it's clamped around both H&N
wires.


The ammeter I've got requires a splitter,
for that reason. I'm suspicious.

Read the links.
The technology exists.
But it depends on the physical arrangement of the wires in the cable.
Standard flat two-wire cable, maybe.
Twisted 3-wire cable of unknown internal dimensions, not so much.
I wonder more about what powers the wifi.

In the real world, I expect the unknown cables will be problematic.

I did not look at all the links, but yes, I imagine if the sensor was
placed just right it could work.


Forty years ago I never would have believed one could focus and image
from a camera *after* it was taken...but I bought a Lytro which can do
that. (After I had fun with it, I gave it to my daughter)