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An electrical meter with integral AC current clamp is known as a clamp meter, clamp-on ammeter, tong tester, or colloquially as an amp clamp. A clamp meter measures the vector sum of the currents flowing in all the conductors passing through the probe, which depends on the phase relationship of the currents. Only one conductor is normally ...
An ammeter (abbreviation of ampere meter) is an instrument used to measure the current in a circuit. Electric currents are measured in amperes (A), hence the name. For direct measurement, the ammeter is connected in series with the circuit in which the current is to be measured.
Adapter gadgets using this principle are available that provide a 10x multiplication. With my particular clamp meter (which has a most-sensitive range of 6A), this provides a full-scale sensitivity of 600mA. Atlant 01:01, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Most clamp meters these days claim 0.1 amp minimum range and about 0.2 amp accuracy.
Clamp meters clamp around a conductor carrying a current to measure without the need to connect the meter in series with the circuit, or make metallic contact at all. Those for AC measurement use the transformer principle; clamp-on meters to measure small current or direct current require more exotic sensors, such as; hall effect based systems ...
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A negative clamp is the opposite of this—this clamp outputs a purely negative waveform from an input signal. A bias voltage between the diode and ground offsets the output voltage by that amount. For example, an input signal of peak value 5 V (V INpeak = 5 V) is applied to a positive clamp with a bias of 3 V (V BIAS = 3 V), the peak output ...