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Arfa Daily wrote:
Modern high impedance input DVMs are a bit of a pain for measuring
household wiring. An old analogue meter with about 1000 ohms per volt
is much more use.

Leakage current in home wiring is often due to the presence of power
factor correction capacitors in older flourescent light fixtures, and
is quite normal.

And with most SMPS. However, I was meaning testing with no load. UK house
wiring is Twin and Earth - all enclosed within a sheath. This is a good
system to keep external fields to a minimum, but allows a degree of
capacitive coupling which with a high impedance volt meter gives very
misleading results.

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