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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
med6753:
Neither. :-- Above 1KV and it's time to bust out the big guns. B&K PR-28.
But it's intended for 10 MEG input DMM or VTVM so it wouldn't work with your VOM's.
tautech:
--- Quote from: med6753 on June 19, 2018, 11:00:16 am ---Neither. :-- Above 1KV and it's time to bust out the big guns. B&K PR-28.
But it's intended for 10 MEG input DMM or VTVM so it wouldn't work with your VOM's.
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What's happened to all the real men when a little bit of HV comes out ! :P
med6753:
Hey, I once got zapped with approx 14KV and I'll tell you it HURT. :-DD
My father was working on a portable TV. He had the chassis pulled away from the CRT so the outer aquadad coating wasn't grounded to the chassis. The TV was on so the HV was pumping into the inner coating. As you know that coating is like a big capacitor. Well dummy me pointed at the screen of the CRT to show how nice the picture looked. At that moment the HV found it's ground. Through my finger. I drew an arc at least 2 inches. :scared: :wtf:
So I have a healthy respect for high voltage.
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: med6753 on June 19, 2018, 11:00:16 am ---Neither. :-- Above 1KV and it's time to bust out the big guns. B&K PR-28.
But it's intended for 10 MEG input DMM or VTVM so it wouldn't work with your VOM's.
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Well now thats hardly the right attitude is it?
The question was IF you had to, WHICH one would you go with? Also of course which probe belongs to which meter??
Now then it strikes me that both meters are made by well respected companies, both have japanese engineering so should be well engineered and tested to their rating provided of course that you take adequate precautions and not standing in a pool of water etc :-DD, so with that in mind both probes should be safe to use given the aforementioned factors. Obviously we all would much prefer to use something that was rated at 40Kv such as the B&K PR-28 with a safety factor of 8 times the 5Kv.
Specmaster:
To be honest, I never quite understand why the big guns HV probes always seem to have such massive, uninsulated tips on them, especially when so often the test points or accessible points on HV are so often in such close proximity to other items or even grounded metal work, seems to be inviting flash overs if you ask me?
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