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Re: [Amps] plate voltage meter shunt

To: "Carl" <km1h@jeremy.mv.com>, <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] plate voltage meter shunt
From: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 20:58:19 -0800
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-----Original Message----- From: Carl
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 8:38 AM
To: Jim Thomson ; amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] plate voltage meter shunt

Subject: Re: [Amps] plate voltage meter shunt


** Understood but I dont expect someone to be running a 5KV meter at 5KV, in
that case Id configure for 10KV and not have to worry about a new scale (-;

Carl
KM1H

## For a 5 kv meter, I usually use a 0-500 micro-amp ammeter. ( half a ma)..
+  a 10 meg ohm resistor. ( like 5 x 2 megohm resistors in series etc) .
Then the 0-500ua scale  reads  0-5000 volts.

## The 0-10 kv meter's of course use a 0-1 ma meter...and the same 10 megohms
worth of resistance.    The 0-1ma meter now read 0-10 kv.

## The above two configs will then work on any amp..from 0-10 kv, with the
dividing point being 5 kv.

## I need simple, and you are correct, why use a 0-1ma meter to read 0-5 kv.
A lot of these meter's are not easy to take apart, and swap scales etc.

Jim   VE7RF



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