"Clancy Wiggum" wrote in message
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Charles wrote:

Phantom? For heavens sake, let's get real here. There is no such thing
as
a phantom voltage ... there is a voltage that shows up with no load and
drops to near zero with a load ... bad connection!


NO. That is not what he wrote.

Here is brief tutorial:

1/ Voltage is constant in parallel circuits.
2./ Voltage is distributed in series circuits.
3/ A resistance or impedance will drop some voltage, proportional to current
flow.

HE/SHE might have a circuit with a bad connection ... good enough to
register normal when no load is connected and measured with a high-impedance
tester ... but not able to supply a real load.