New toy- Yokogawa CL 220 clamp meter

The thing is tiny! Shown next to the EEVblog uRuller

The thing is tiny! Shown next to the EEVblog uRuler

Introduction

I’ve been looking for a good clamp meter for a while now. While there is plenty of no-name cheap meters on Ebay, I figured I’d wait till something better “washes ashore”. So when a Yokogawa meter got caught in my ebay filters one day, I grabbed it. Yokogawa is a Japanese company, well known for their power measurement equipment. This meter has a nice mix of AC and DC current ranges fitting my low to medium current measurements needs. It is also a recent model, still being made and supported- a rarity in my lab setup of 20+ year old equipment Continue reading