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

[mike]

My clamp meter (fluke) does AC & DC, i think it's got
some sort of hall effect sensor it in it


--- LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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