Tacklife AC Line Splitter
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Bought with real money.
Works with clamp meters to easily measure 2-line or 3-line wire without destroying the insulation cover to separate the lines, which ensures an easy and safe measurement. So it says. Let's see.
One advantage of the splitter over the integrated power meter is that you can connect a clamp probe with a BNC to an oscilloscope if you want to see the waveform or measure inrush current (as opposed to continuous current).
Excellent. Thank you for opening the splitter and posting this video!
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It's SUPER useful for measuring inrush current that most plugs don't measure
Wait a minute. This isnt AvE
It's a CT - (current transformer) and would, I suppose, be useful in this form to measure AC current in a portable appliance without to the need break into the plug exposing the user to inherent danger while the appliance is live.
As we all know you can't just clip over the lead cable which has both neutral and live lines cancelling each other out and so nullifying a 'clip-on ammeter.
It is, I suppose, a useful piece of test equipment for the electrician.
It's a line splitter not transformer, it merely spaces out the hot and neutral line so an amp clamp can be put around one of the lines and get a reading instead of having to go around both lines which gives no reading.
This is a great video. I appreciate the dissassembly of the device. I really watched this to see if the x10 was achieved by 10 loops of one pole or 5 opposing windings of hot and neutral. One thing I noticed is the readings were taken from the wrong side of the line splitter. The x1 reading was accurate as it was based off only the red insulated wire. The x10 reading as taken was based on nine windings if the bare wire plus the red wire and ground. It would be interesting to see the current values based on the correct side. It is odd that the ground was run along the same side as where amperage readings are to be taken.
On one side of the 10x loop you have 10 hots (and ground, but there should be no ground current). On the other side you have only nine hots, but they are in the opposite direction, and one neutral. Since the hots are backwards on that side, they are effectively in phase with the neutral, so you should still see 10x on that side as well.
@@EricSmith42 Eric Smith, that's a brilliant observation and explanation of the nine hots adding to the one neutral for a correct reading on either side of the 10x eye in the line splitter.
Thank you - Thanks to your review I am going to purchase the U.S. version for about $10 on sale @ Amazon. It's a bit different because it has also holes to put your test leads into.
Look nice but not wired correctly . The G line (ground) must be wired along with the N line .
Can you explain please?
Good call. I would love to understand too. I don't want my electrons to fall out 🤤
It's ok, ground is not a current carrying conductor. If you have an situation where it is, you need to stop, repair the electrical fault, and then you can measure how much current your using at a given outlet.
Makes no difference which side you run the ground wire since it is not conducting any current at all. Ground wire is only for protection in case of a fatal failure.
@@DavidMcLuckie It is good enough for most measurements but not optimal (especially for low current devices) because there is almost always SOME level of current leakage or differential (there are ways to have differential between neutral and hot without that current going on the ground conductor...alternative ground paths, etc). There isn't a good reason I can think of for tacklife to not wire/label it correctly. Assuming you have 0 current on the ground conductor, you can get an accurate reading as long as you clamp on the side that has the ground and not the neutral. If you clamp to the neutral side 10x, then you are only getting 9x (10x hot - 1x neutral). If you clamp to the ground side you see 1x and 10x on the hot as long as there is no leakage current on ground. So the optimal way to wire it would be to run the neutral and ground on the same side and then label the splitter to indicate that neutral/ground side should not be used for measurement. Then you get an accurate hot current measurement regardless of any differential or ground leakage. The ht line splitter has a third measurement hole that has neutral/hot on one side and ground alone on the other and both sides can be used for measurement (raw ground current and hot/neutral differential current). Comparing the two indicates of the leakage is going over the ground conductor or via some alternative path. After this measurement hole the neutral switches sides to run with the ground. ht-instruments has a wiring diagram on their site that illustrates this. But yes other than the housing/plugs these should be very cheap devices (ht instruments are too expensive for what they are) as they are just wire of appropriate gauge run (hopefully) correctly and possibly some test points for voltage measurement as well. Many people with RCD nuisance trip problems want to test their appliances after narrowing down which circuit is contributing the most to the leakage sum...so I definitely see these splitters as being very useful for both current measurement as well as leakage troubleshooting (e.g. finding the appliances that are contributing most to the RCD trips).
is there a link to buy this splitter? Thanks.
where can i buy it ?
(online store)
If there is a current leakage from the G (ground) wire , then the reading on the L (hot wire)will not be correct . Check the link of a correctly design line splitter ( pay attention to the wiring ) .
rapid-tech.com.au/ht-instruments-ha000951-line-splitter-separator/
That is a nice unit. But the cheap tacklife one will still show a current reading that's close enough for most. There is almost always current leakage to earth either from insulation (nothing is 100%) or things like power supplies with filters etc. In the UK if it is more than 30mA it would trip an RCD.
If you have current on a ground wire you have an electrical problem to fix, measuring current flow is secondary to the safety hazard that needs addressing.
@@killer2600you are correct BUT now we talking for this line spliter evaluation .....
By the way , if it was correctly wired , the spiter also help you to verify the current leakage in grount (G) wire .
@@geoproto5046 How's that? If you put the neutral and ground wires on the same side how exactly do we find how much current is on the ground?
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