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Jeff Urban Jeff Urban is offline
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Default Power line indicator

"If I'm understanding this
correctly when you "wrap" the probe wire around the conductor that
would appear to be induction, (transformer of sorts), "

That is correct if you provide a return path at the other end of the
wire. Doing that will make it sense current inductively. If you leave
it open it wil detect the voltage capacitively.

J