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Re: Meter Shunts ??



Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

"A shunt is nothing more than a low value resistor. Current through the
shunt
causes a voltage drop across it such that V = I x R.

Stephen A. Mathieson"

	It's quite a little more than that.  Most importantly, its a 4-terminal
resistor!  Heavy current flows through the main terminals while the
meter is connected to a second pair of terminals.  That way contact
resistance is minimized and any connection resistance in the
high-current circuit has no effect on the reading.

Ed