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Frank DeWitt

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How to hold three probes
« on: February 14, 2020, 09:48:50 AM »
How do you measure 3 phase 440 with one hand?




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Re: How to hold three probes
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2020, 09:52:58 AM »
I want a prehensile tail with an opposable thumb....
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Re: How to hold three probes
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2020, 10:56:26 AM »
Quote from: Frank DeWitt on February 14, 2020, 09:48:50 AM
How do you measure 3 phase 440 with one hand?



Very, very, carefully! (I seem to recall that was the punchline to some joke when I was a kid, but can't remember the set-up :-[)
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Re: How to hold three probes
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2020, 11:31:43 AM »
Apparently arc flash was not a problem back then? 
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Re: How to hold three probes
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2020, 11:44:02 AM »
That looks like an accident waiting to happen... danger Will Robinson.

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Re: How to hold three probes
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2020, 12:17:41 PM »
Quote from: Frank DeWitt on February 14, 2020, 09:48:50 AM
How do you measure 3 phase 440 with one hand?
I dunno. That's my Lampie's problem  ;D

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Re: How to hold three probes
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2020, 05:06:44 PM »
Quote from: Frank DeWitt on February 14, 2020, 09:48:50 AM
How do you measure 3 phase 440 with one hand?

The question answers itself.

With one hand (and the other safely behind your back).
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Re: How to hold three probes
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2020, 05:55:27 PM »
I have to ask-how is this wired internally?
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Re: How to hold three probes
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2020, 06:13:05 PM »
One leg at a time very carefully.
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Re: How to hold three probes
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2020, 06:35:13 PM »
Quote from: Stephen Swaffer on February 14, 2020, 05:55:27 PM
I have to ask-how is this wired internally?

I don’t know but the directions say that you connect the red and green, then add the black and the meter will go up for one rotation direction and down for the other.
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Re: How to hold three probes
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2020, 07:07:07 PM »
Quote from: Ike Zimbel on February 14, 2020, 10:56:26 AM
Very, very, carefully! (I seem to recall that was the punchline to some joke when I was a kid, but can't remember the set-up :-[)

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Re: How to hold three probes
« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2020, 07:54:10 PM »
Quote from: Dave Garoutte on February 14, 2020, 07:07:07 PM
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Ah! Dave for the point!
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