multimeter advice needed

[R. W. Hughes]

> It would be ideal if it could measure current by an inductive pick-up.  
> Don't know if all this is possible at a reasonable price, I may be asking 
> too much.

Tenma makes a hall-effect clamp-on that puts out 1mv per amp ac or dc
with pretty good frequency reponse. I think it is 1000amps full scale
and minimum resolution will be in the .1 to 1 amp range. Look for a
meter with 200mv range if you want to use one of these.
-- 
Robert W. Hughes (Bob)
BackYard Engineering
Houston, Texas
rwhughe at ev1.net