I purchased the multimeter pictured below for a high voltage power supply I'm working on. It's rated for 100V DC and 10A, but I hope to measure several thousand volts. Is it possible to use a HV voltage probe like I would use with a regular multimeter on this component, or no?
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Best Answer
No. Those cheap meters use a voltage divider adding up to around 280-290K and go directly into an 8-bit MCU (STM8 series).
Typical high voltage probes assume a reasonably accurate 10M\$\Omega\$ input impedance for the multimeter- something like 999M in series with 1.11M (internal divider values), so it would read grossly low on this kind of an input.