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Doug Miller Doug Miller is offline
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Default baseboard heater trips breaker - Bad stat?

In article , " wrote:

yeah DONT use digital meters for this sort of testing......

light bulb or analog meter

digitals too sensitive give capacitive coupled readings


Oh, fer cryin' out loud, haller, a digital meter is just fine for telling the
difference between 120V and 240V. The 1- and 2-volt readings that he got have
absolutely nothing to do with the breaker tripping.