multimeter advice needed

[steve ravet]

"R. W. Hughes" wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Will this work with any meter?  Does it need batteries or something?

--steve



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Steve Ravet
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