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Re: Main breaker tripping, dead CIM

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Originally Posted by brycen66 View Post
You could get around this by using a differential op amp setup on a length of wire attached to your main ground wire, but that adds unnecessary resistance.
You don't need to add unnecessary resistance. Just measure the voltage drop across the existing ground wire:

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
Instead of measuring the voltage drop across the main breaker, you could measure the voltage drop across a length of wire.
Or use an isolation amplifier. I'm sure a EE could figure it out.

I like your Hall Effect solution too.


[EDIT] By the way, your link is broken: it has a trailing ")"



Last edited by Ether : 12-04-2014 at 20:42.