[volt-nuts] 3458A Zero reading

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Jul 29 02:19:06 EDT 2015


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In message <19942E77-F4FD-4BA5-82CD-75A35BB5A4E9 at gmail.com>, Richard Moore writ
es:

>Heavy gauge wire is only needed for current measurements, which I seldom do.

Heavy gauge wire has different thermal behaviour than think wire (area deepends
on radius squared, surface only on radius)

It is not always obvious which behaviour is preferable.


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