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VOM -- How to use
HeyBub wrote:
wrote: All I want to know most of the time is if there is current flowing and if there is, how much? You can't. VOM stands for Volt, Ohm, Milliammeter. Current is measured in amps; your meter can measure - at best - some thousandths of an amp. Buy a Kill-A-Watt box for ordinary household measurements. It'll measure volts, watts, Hertz, kilowatts, kilowatt hours, and other stuff. Here's one on Ebay: You can get an inductive probe for measuring AC amps and it doesn't require breaking the circuit. You just snap the probe around one wire and use the milliamp current range on the VOM and read it as amps instead of milliamps. Good ones are expensive though which is why you mostly only see pros having them. |
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