Electrically, all it is is a large voltage divider. Technically,
you could make one yourself with 2 resistors.
However, the trick is making one that won't kill you. Commercial
HV probes have all kinds of shielding and insulation to prevent arc-over,
and let you measure the HV safely.
There's some info about HV probes in the sci.electronics.repair
faq at www.repairfaq.org
Joe
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Andrew Wilson wrote:
>
> >Yeah I have a HV probe and should have thought about using it.
>
> Here's kind of a stupid question. Is an HV probe a special piece of
> electronic equipment, or is it just a higher-resistance lead that you hook up to a
> regular DMM, and you then scale up your DMM readings?
>
> Drew
>
>
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