In this case, the OP got that voltage from each blade, to
ground. So, it's not a ghost voltage. One of those oughta
been hot, the other oughta been neutral.

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"David Nebenzahl"
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Are you absolutely sure it is 59.4V and not 59.4
millivolts?

Agreed. AND I'd double check with an analog meter to rule
out
inductive ghost voltages.

It's getting *really* annoying hearing this same answer
regurgitated
every time someone reports a problem involving weird
voltages in their
home's wiring.

One would think that a DMM (digital multimeter) is a totally
unreliable
instrument, prone to erroneous measurements due to cosmic
rays and pixie
dust.

This is not the case. I just measured my unit's voltages
with my DMM.
Got 122-something volts between hot and ground, and 0.0
between neutral
and ground, just like you're supposeta.

The OP has some screwy wiring, perhaps a floating ground,
maybe
something else.

(This isn't to say that it isn't *possible* for a DMM to
misread due to
stray capacitance or induced voltages, but it is nowhere
near as
terrible a problem as you hear here.)


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