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ktmrfs
Oct 08, 2013Explorer III
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
The only inductive voltage "measurement" devices I have ever seen were detectors warning of the presence of an electromagnetic field. Either the field met pre-set threshold value or it didn't. High Voltage to me means the magic 14 foot corona limit on standard networks. Hotstick and "High-Voltage" is an oxymoron. Especially for the guy on the end of the stick ;)
there are a few around, mostly using optical sensing devices that just happen to be sensitive to an electric field. However they were designed specifcally for measuring high voltage transmission lines with lots of constraints on how they could be used. But again extremely specialized and don't think there was any big use of them.
I spent several years off and on working with optical sensing circuits for electric fields seeing if there was a way to use them to get any repeatable quantitative voltage measurements on traces on a circuit board without making electrical contact. to many issues about surrounding fields to ever get anything remotely useable.
All it yielded was a slew of patents for other optical applications that fell out of the work.
Maybe someday in the future a smarter mind and new technology will prevail.
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