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aliaze1
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Hi,
My friends and I are doing a project that involves some very high (multiples of 10 kV and above) voltage, but very low current.
The controller for our transformer has an analog ammeter on it, but we would like to have a computer read and recored the current readings from it. We have a microcontroller that can read voltages, so I was thinking we could take the leads of this analog ammeter, and run it through a 1Ω resistor and get a voltage drop, which will have the same value as the current since the resistor is only 1Ω.
Am I on the right track?
Thanks!
My friends and I are doing a project that involves some very high (multiples of 10 kV and above) voltage, but very low current.
The controller for our transformer has an analog ammeter on it, but we would like to have a computer read and recored the current readings from it. We have a microcontroller that can read voltages, so I was thinking we could take the leads of this analog ammeter, and run it through a 1Ω resistor and get a voltage drop, which will have the same value as the current since the resistor is only 1Ω.
Thanks!