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clamp probe with BNC - compatible with DMM ?
« on: May 15, 2010, 07:03:14 pm »
Well I found one Clamp probe AC/DC in good price , but it haves an BNC connector.
And officially called as Clamp for Oscilloscopes.

It has double output as  1A/10mV  &  1A/1mV  , and probably True RMS as it has a range up to 10 kHz.

So the question is , is it also compatible with DMM , If I use one BNC to banana adapter ?
 

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Re: clamp probe with BNC - compatible with DMM ?
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2010, 07:09:39 pm »
Probably, assuming it doesn't take other signals like power from the scope. The major difference is that a scope's input is 1Mohm, and most DMM's are 10Mohm. But since it behaves like a voltage source, a higher impedance should be fine. The output has probably the same waveform as the input (limited by the bandwidth), so there's nothing true-RMS about it, the conversion to DC is done by the DMM.
 

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Re: clamp probe with BNC - compatible with DMM ?
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2010, 07:30:16 pm »
(limited by the bandwidth), so there's nothing true-RMS about it, the conversion to DC is done by the DMM.

True, I was referring about the Pickup bandwidth , As it has from 40Hz to 10kHz bandwidth .
« Last Edit: May 15, 2010, 07:32:04 pm by Kiriakos-GR »
 


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