On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:56:13 -0700, Andrew Duane wrote:

olt that rapidly dwindles to 0.

My question is whether these transformers *need* some load to actually
product voltage, in which case my DVM is giving me a false negative.
This is much like the "floating 85V" you often get on a switched off
120V line when using a high impedance DVM to check it.

Probably not, but you can always test the voltage with the lamp plugged
in.