[Amps] Needed: Easy to Wind Low Value Meter Shunt Wire

[Will Matney]

Ron,

Yes there is as I just saw them in Mouser. I forget the manufacturer but they'll be under resistors. Shunts like a 0.1 ohm or lower are hard to make and be accurate.

Best,

Will

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On 2/3/06 at 11:52 PM w2cqm at juno.com wrote:

>Hopefully, someone can suggest an easy technique to wire meter shunts in
>fractional parts of an ohm.  I just spent some tedious, cut and try time
>finally getting a 1 ma meter to read 1 amp of plate current using  an
>oddball  combination of four (4) sand type mini value resistors in
>parallel.  It's cumbersome,  works OK,  but looks awful.  Is there a
>retail supplier  of  low value nichrome type resistance  wire (per linear
>length)   that allows for the quick calculation and fabrication of meter
>shunts within a range of  fractional parts of an ohm? (e.g.,  .04-.05
>ohms)  Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ron W2CQM/3 
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