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On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:34:13 -0500, Wes Groleau
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On 11-15-2013, 01:56, Robert Green wrote:
voltage meter (thanks again, Nate for the referral). I can say with
certainty if a newbie's life depends on reading this sucker correctly
the
first time out, he's going to die. Depending on where the dial is set
you
can get voltage from a stone. After a while I am getting the hang of
it but
it's pretty tricky and is wildly effected by RF emanations. Dimmers,
TV's,

That's what I was referring to in one of my posts when I said a similar
tool is not for the untrained. (Didn't use that word, but I'm too lazy
to go back and find it.)

GENERALLY it is more likely to read a voltage that does not exist
than miss one that does if you follow the instructions.

Better safe than sorry.

I took out the Variac to see if I could feed some low-voltage AC into the
bathroom plumbing but a very worried look from SWMBO put the kibosh on that
experiment. Agree that it's more likely to find phantom AC than it is to
miss real current flow.

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Bobby G.