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Sensor for 12v Current

Elerek

Cable-Tie Ninja
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Jul 17, 2017
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So I've got a 750w hotswap power supply and a custom board I made that hooks onto it and powers it on. It supplies 12 volts on a single rail. I'm thinking about running this into a gunique dc-dc psu, but I'd like to have a sensor in place to measure the amps being drawn. I figured this should be pretty easy since there's only one rail.

750w / 12v = 62.5 amps

Is there a small current sensor I could put into the circuit that could handle that so I can rig it up to a microcontroller and lcd screen to display the number of watts I'm using?
 
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