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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robin Cornelius wrote: > Clip on meters only work if you can get ONE conductor through the clip > on area, eg the current only flowing in one direction, if you clip on > a standard mains cable etc you will measure nothing as the magnetic > field is canceled out by the pair of cables. Basicly they work on > transformer action. About the only place you can do this on a regular household setup is on the meter tails. Thus you'd need to switch everything else off. In which case you don't really need an additional meter :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIsFMLsoRLMhsZpFcRAhl8AJ9i6PmDKv/5LKL3xl8V64Y7znFr+ACfWc/H atNhYH47Zg4ZCY3NGJZF3P0= =/ECw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html