[AMPS] ?? High VDC VOM

[Alek Petkovic]

PLEASE DON'T DO IT.

The last thing you would ever want anywhere near an HT supply, no matter
who you are or what your qualifications are, is a multimeter or VOM as you
call it. 

If you must know the voltage, build a voltage divider type metering system
into your supply and keep the covers screwed down firmly whenever it is
switched on. 

Alternatively, run 5 or 6 volts from a filament transformer or similar into
the primary of your HT tranny and use your multimeter and calculator to
work it out from there.

Using a meter with HT probes or flying leads on a 4KV supply is a disaster
just begging to be let loose.

73 de Alek. VK6APK.



At 01:49 AM 6/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>If I recall some old analog VOM's had a 10k vdc jack on them. Simpson
>260 maybe? Anyway I need to know which VOM's are out there that can
>measure at least 4k vdc for my amp stuff here. All the digitals I have
>stop at 1k vdc.
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>73's
>Robert E. Dodson
>mailto:wb5apd@stc.net
>WB5APD/EM84AK 
>"ex-WA4WQC, ex-WV6SKV"
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