How much amperage can an alternator support? no really...

[LL - NY]

Whoops. You are right. My industrial experience combined with early onset
Altzheimers
kicked in there. Inductive meters will not work with DC. Guess you'd need
one mutha
of an inline meter.

On 2/7/08, syljay <syljay at optonline.net> wrote:
>
> Inductive current meters depend on expanding and collapsing
> electromagnetic fields - - as in A/C current.
>
> A current thru a wire produces a magnetic field around the wire.
> Passing a wire thru a magnetic field produces current in the wire.
> A stationary wire in a stationary magnetic field produces nothing in
> the wire.
>
> DC current will produce a field around a wire . . .but the field stays
> constant. No expanding and collapsing fields to produce current in the
>   meter inductive pickup - hence, no reading.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> SJ in NJ
>
> --------------------------------------------
> At those current levels, you'd want to consider an inductive current
> meter.
> You don't need to break the lines to measure the current, just clamp the
> coil around the lead in question (the ground line to the battery would be
> best) and determine the current draw.
>
> LL - NY
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