Trackrig wrote:
That's interesting and cheap enough to "Play" with.
In the Amazon description it says: "Loop through sensor multiple times to strengthen signal. For example, if your current signal is only 0.2 Amps, you could loop the wire through the sensor 10 times and the signal would by 10X stronger and would appear as 2.0 Amps."
To make the meter work, you have to disconnect a wire and run it through the sensor. Based on the above quote, if you have sufficient slack in a smaller wire, I wonder if you could fold it over and then stick the fold through the sensor. Since there would be two runs of the wire, you'd then have to divide the reading by two.
Bill
Zig-zagging or folding the wire wouldn't work because the zags cancel out the magnetic field of the zigs (and vice-versa). The gizmo measures the net current flowing through the donut. With what you describe, you have a net current of zero (since the current traveling outwards on one leg of the fold has to come back inwards on the other leg).
