If you have the "mystery circuit" and it uses 460 volts, so you are able to calculate the wattage. But how you can get from the voltage to wattage is not the mystery; this is the application of Watt's Law that will show a relationship between the amperage and also the voltage.
When you understand on a number of volts the circuit will be carrying, and when you understand on a number of amps of the current that are being pushed by the conductor, you are able to work the whole things out with the simple formula. You can read the information below.
For the first step that you can do is that you can insert an output that leads from the amp clamp to the input jacks of your multimeter. The black lead will always go into the "general" terminal on your multimeter. The red lead will go into the "10A" jack in measuring the currents greater than the 300 mA.
For the second step, you can set the range on an amp clamp to the "200A" and also clamp the jaw of an amp clamp around a wire. You need to ensure that the jaws of an amp clamp will be completely closed.
For the next step, you should read your multimeter. Multiply the reading on your multimeter by 10 in determining a number of the amps.
For the last step, you need to calculate the wattage by using the Watt's Law: the power equals volts time's amps. A watt is a power work that is done by 1 volt when it will move 1 amp of the electricity by the conductor, just like a wire. If an amp clamp will tell you that there are 20 amps on a circuit, then: 20 x 460 = 9,200 watts, so the wattage for the circuit will carry 460 volts at the 20 amps.
When you understand on a number of volts the circuit will be carrying, and when you understand on a number of amps of the current that are being pushed by the conductor, you are able to work the whole things out with the simple formula. You can read the information below.
For the first step that you can do is that you can insert an output that leads from the amp clamp to the input jacks of your multimeter. The black lead will always go into the "general" terminal on your multimeter. The red lead will go into the "10A" jack in measuring the currents greater than the 300 mA.
For the second step, you can set the range on an amp clamp to the "200A" and also clamp the jaw of an amp clamp around a wire. You need to ensure that the jaws of an amp clamp will be completely closed.
For the next step, you should read your multimeter. Multiply the reading on your multimeter by 10 in determining a number of the amps.
For the last step, you need to calculate the wattage by using the Watt's Law: the power equals volts time's amps. A watt is a power work that is done by 1 volt when it will move 1 amp of the electricity by the conductor, just like a wire. If an amp clamp will tell you that there are 20 amps on a circuit, then: 20 x 460 = 9,200 watts, so the wattage for the circuit will carry 460 volts at the 20 amps.