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[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <199805010049.UAA10398@urq.East.Sun.COM> Robert Houk - SMCC WorkGroup Server Firmware writes:

> Aren't German Electrics fun!
>
> Anyways, I can't think of many more particular gizmos to check than has
> already been suggested (is the radio TRULY off?)... so what *I* would
> do (rather than starting snipping All THe DA...oops) would be to get a
> nice hall-effect current measuring instrument that can just "clamp"
> around wires so that you can *easily* see if any one wire (or even a
> group of wires/harness/subharness/etc.) is carrying a current (just
> make sure that there are no "return" lines in the same bundle, as
> that will cancel out the load current!).

I'd already thought of this.  The only current probe I have ia AC-only,
so it's off down to Maplins.

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 Phil Payne
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