Current sensor measures 0 to 500A

Posted on Aug 25, 2012

The simple circuit in Figure 1a can sense both low and high current levels without low sensitivities or loss of accuracy either at the low or the high end of the scale. The circuit is useful for discerning either low or high currents in noisy environments.

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