On 4/8/2014 8:24 PM, Pilgrim wrote:
In article ,
Trevor Wilson wrote:

On 9/04/2014 8:41 AM, Jon Elson wrote:


It is also possible that there was enough capacitance between primary
and secondary to give the 40 V reading without an actual short.

**BINGO! That is the only explanation which makes sense.

Everybody today thinks that a digital multimeter is the be all to end
all.

Give me a good old Simpson 260 any day.

CP.


Fluke makes a small cube that plugs into the meter and the leads plug
into it. It has a resistor that lowers the impedance of the meter.