Yasir

Shabbir Khan M Aamir Riaz

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A clamp meter is an electrical tester that combines a voltmeter with a clamp type current meter

 Clamp

meters are a very convenient testing instrument that permits current measurements on a live conductor without circuit interruption.

 When

making current measurements with the ordinary multimeter, we need to cut wiring and connect the instrument to the circuit under test as shown in Fig.1.

Using the clamp meter, however, we can measure current by simply clamping on a conductor as illustrated in Fig.2. One of the advantages of this method is that we can even measure a large current without shutting off the circuit being tested.

Hall element is placed across a gap created by cutting off part of the transformer jaws. When there occurs a flow of magnetic flux proportional to both AC and DC primary currents in the transformer jaws this hall element detects the magnetic flux and takes it out as an output voltage.

 In

general AC clamp meters operate on the principle of current transformer(CT)

 Assuming

a current flowing through a conductor to be the primary current obtain a current proportional to the primary current by electromagnetic induction from the secondary side(winding) of the transformer.

Safety Precautions
Use only meters with recessed input jacks Be sure the meter is in good operating order Always disconnect the hot (red) test lead first Dont work alone Use a meter that has overload protection on the ohms function

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