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                                                22nd December 2011, 11:28 AM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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					Upgrade to the $20 cheapie from Dicks or Jaycar.... You want better (read "SAFE") leads & probes if there's any mains power  nearby....
 
 - We'd like you alive and well and on this forum for a while longer!
Definitely looks like a thermal circuit breaker.  That's an Over-Current Protection  Thingy   that takes time to get hot & bothered...sulks a bit,  then Opens.  When it cools down it re-sets itself.
- As opposed to a wire fuse that instantly blows at a pre-determined current ("Amps") and needs to be replaced with a new one.
Google     Types of fuses     for some easy reading.
				
			 
			
		 
			
				
			
				
			
			
			
		 
	 
	
	
 
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                                                23rd December 2011, 05:57 AM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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					I'll give it a bit more time & $ and, as I have bigger fish to fry, if not successful I'll put back on the ornament shelf with the old Castrol signs, oil tins etc
				
			 
			
		 
			
			
			
				
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                                                24th December 2011, 02:57 PM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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					meters witrh a linear motor don't know if it is rectified AC or DC they are measuring it is just a matter of a calibration factor.
Before going into the 1/square root (2) calibration factor I agree with the others and go out and get a cheap meter.
				
			 
			
		 
			
				
			
			
			
		 
	 
	
	
 
		
		
		
	
 
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
		
		
		
		
			
				
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