[Mini] [minElist] Shunts and ammeters & starter motor load

Richard Porter ricp at minijem.plus.com
Mon Apr 25 09:06:40 MDT 2016


On 21 Apr 2016 Richard Porter  wrote:

> A 130 or 160 ammeter will have a built-in shunt. You could still add
> an external shunt to rescale the meter to, say, 1300 amps. I would add
> a fuse in the meter circuit just in case the shunt fails. You don't
> want to put 200 amps through the meter!

Oops my +/- characters came back as spurioua figure 1s.

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