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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Memory Checkers; Now Clamp-on Ammeters Date: 5 Nov 1996 07:39:44 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <55mr00$8ss@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <55ge1k$n3v@Symiserver2.symantec.com> <55jcl5$pi6@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva3.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <55jcl5$pi6@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>, ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) writes: >tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote: >> >> Rubbish. I have sitting in my lap here a 1996 electrical distribution >> catalog from Omega (www.omega.com) that lists clamp-on ammeters that >> measure AC and DC amperage, voltage and resistance. (although how they >> measure _that_ without making a hard connection I have no idea) The > >Any electrical current will generate a magnetic field, wether AC or DC >current. > Precisely, but, how do they measure Resistance? :-)