Where does the Digital Clamp Meter use in the home instead of digital multi-meters ?
Where does the digital clamp meter use in the home instead of digital multi-meters ?
If so, then in what areas & in what purposes ?
whatever i know about them or the advantage of the clamp meter over multimeter that you easily measure the load of any particular device without stripping/cutting the wire .
Is there any other advantage of clamp meter over multimeter ?
what features should be present in a digital clamp meter ?
Whats their price as compared to digital multimeters ?
thanks
To use a clamp tester, you have to be able to separate the active and neutral wires of a circuit, so you can get the clamp around just 1 conductor, to read current. So in a home, the only place where they are separated and accessible, is in the meter box. I would suggest you don't monkey about in a meter box, unless you are positive of what you are doing.
The only advantage of a clamp tester over a multimeter is the ability to read current flow without having to break the circuit to insert a multimeter.
It is not very often, in a domestic situation, you need to measure current.
Some clamp testers can also measure DC currents, so can be handy for hobby use. But as hobby voltages are generally pretty low, there is no real problem using a multimeter instead.
Both clamp testers and multimeters come in cheap and expensive makes and models, you spend what you can afford, or get the most basic that does the desired job.
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