Mike,
As a guy with several fried DVM sitting on my bench, I would strongly
recommend against this. In addition to the fireworks that come from
overstepping one of the DVM's breakdown voltage, at these voltages, a
misstep can result in death. My wife probably would not be happy saying, at
my funeral, "at least he was trying to save some money on test equipment."
A fluke probe is about $50 on ebay. It's nothing but a string of resistors
and a long bit of plastic. The key here is that the spacing from your
fingers to any of the contact surfaces is a long way. The key here is to
value this probe as a way to keep living. If you value the individual
component parts, you will think it's a waste of money...
Any VOM/DVM using standard probes is going to have your fingers a lot
closer. And those max voltages indicated? They are real. I had a couple
with 600VAC written on the unit - but a FS of 1.999KV. I thought, well, it
will probably work up to 1kv where I wanted to measure. Wrong. Snap
crackle pop. But I have a hard head and just had to kill off a few other
(including a couple of pretty expensive Fluke DVMs) along the way before I
got the message.
I am as frugal as the next tight-fisted ham. But with 2 kids and a young
wife, there is no logic in pinching pennies when it comes to HV. Just my
thinking...
Be safe.
73/jeff/ac0c
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From: "MIKE DURKIN" <patriot121@msn.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 8:38 AM
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: [Amps] HV mesuring
>
> Is there a list of lower cost VOM's that can measure 5KV. I know of the
> Simpson 260 (version 5 and older only) that can ..... are there any others
> to keep an eye out for??
>
> KC7NOA
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