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NEON- Building a loading meter
Okay folks, from the "No Question is Too Basic to Ask" files comes the
following:
I'm interested in building a unit for determining "proper" transformer
loading. The units I saw being used in Holland (every shop had one, some
nicely built by you-know-who) all had both a kV and mA meter as part of the
unit. I understood the demos I got at the time and the general concept,
but I think it got lost in one of those water canals over there.
In a recent post, Morgan referred to determining loading with a mA meter.
So, is a kV and an mA meter required to do this or can it just be
determined with a mA meter? I understand the mA meter is connected in
series with the unit, but how do I interpret the reading? Say I connect a
unit to the mA meter and get a reading of 20 mA, now what exactly does that
tell me?
I recently "acquired" (hmm, wonder from whom) such a mA meter ranging from
0 to 60 and some hardware to start with, but I'm a little unclear still on
how this whole process is done. A usual, all help will be appreciated.
(Yes, Dirk, here's evidence that I indeed came back with more questions
than I came over with!)
Tom U.
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