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Old 27-06-2008   #8 (permalink)
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Default Re: insulation resistance with a Fluke 1652

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Originally Posted by Shakey View Post
like the lads said, what are you getting?

i always get my students to measure a circuit with about 50Mohms on it, we use meggers, and they get so used to seeing >299Mohms, that the first time they get something else they think the sky has fallen in on them, even tough they are 100 times greater than the minimum reading!

LOL that happened to me at college! all my work is new circuits, so at college when it came up at a reading <200MOhms i didn't have a clue why! i just couldn't get my head around the fact that ANY reading less than infinity would be acceptable!
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