On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:33:24 -0700, "** Frank **"
wrote:

I have a clothes dryer with a 120VAC push to start button. In measuring the
terminals, both sides are hot (120V) with respect to ground and zero volts
across the two terminals. Why is that?

I thought there was a short on one side of the push button but the dryer is
working properly. Normally it should be hot only on one side.


Any chance it's a normally closed pushbutton? If you press it when
measuring across it, does the voltage go from zero to 120?

Seems odd that they would use a NC switch, but that's the only thing
that explains what you measure...

Paul F.