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Originally Posted by Big Al
Water-Lou wrote:
Ghost Voltage
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HELP! I just can't figure this out. I installed low voltage lighting
under my kitchen cabinets with 3-way switches. They always performed
rather oddly. I would turn them on and they would light after a brief
delay. I don't know why, maybe something with the transformer.
Well, the transformer finally failed and I bought a replacement. I
checked my wiring to try and find out why I was getting a delay and
found something quite bizarre. I isolated the 3-wire and ran voltage on
the black leg only. Well, my digital meter shows 57 volts on the red
leg. Yes, the red leg is attached to nothing.
Buy one of these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/KLEIN-Wiggy-mode...QQcmdZViewItem
Read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenoid_voltmeter
Al |
Hello Big Al,
Thank you for taking the time to try to help me, I appreciate it very much.
I just remembered a very important point that I forgot on my original post and I completely apologize. I'm just too frustrated.
I took a separate piece of three wire to a separate source altogether and performed the same test and found NO voltage on the red leg when energizing the black leg to 110v using the same fluke meter. Go back home; go to the same set up; use the 3 wire in the wall; ghost voltage on the red leg.
I do have a Greenlee analog, will try!