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Re: 250 Volt AC 50hz supply from battery to test Multimeter

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From: budgie
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:30
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:22:12 GMT, "Dave Nichols" <dnichols@bigpond.net.au>
wrote:

>I don't know a lot about electronics design, I'm an electrician but have
>built a few electronic circuits succesfully.
>When we do a test for dead on electrical equipment before isolating and
>tagging we have to test meter on known 240v AC 50hz live source before
>testing equipment for dead. If this is during a power failure there is no
>240v AC supply to test meter.
>I thought maybe you could have a sine wave generator at 50hz feed into an
>amplifier and take output to a transformer instead of a speaker.
>don't know if this is feasible, maybe there are better ways to do it.
>whatever I come up with needs to be compact and portable to go in
>electricians tool box.
>Any comments or thoughs would be appreciated

The sort of thing that Bob Parker would do.  He lurks mainly in aus.electronics,
I have x-posted this there.
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