Re: higher current ammeter sources

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Original poster: dave pierson <davep-at-quik-dot-com> 


>Ok, so you're saying that you can use another coil of wire

  Need not be a coil....  Just a length of wire...

>as a shunt in parallel with the input terminals
>of a smaller ammeter to make the full scale reading a
>given fraction of the total amperage?

    Yep.

>I suppose that you'd have to use another ammeter or clamp-on to

>calibrate the shunt?

    That's one approach.  Or just calculate and meauere carefully.
    Either approadh has some residual error associated...

    best
     dwp