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Old 11-08-2010, 08:53 AM   #3964 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ElectricZX2 View Post
I probably don't know enough to be posting about the LEM but if you need more than 900 amps could you just have two parallel conductors and only measure the current in one of them with the LEM? You would be measuring half the current but you could just adjust the software accordingly...
In theory the idea works fine, but you have to guarantee that the both conductors would be sharing current evenly. If they are not, you reading will be off.

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