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Harvey51
May 27, 2014Explorer
Are these leads from a shunt to a remote meter? The vast majority of the current to be measured goes through the shunt; only a tiny current goes through the meter. For an analog meter, it would be something like 50 micro amps. Less for digital. The voltage drop in the wire to the meter is proportional to this current. A very light gauge wire, such as you would find in a telephone or computer network cable should be fine.
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