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Joseph Meehan
 
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Default Strange not-quite-240 high-voltage smoke problem... short? circuit breaker?

Kent Monroe wrote:
Hi all,


Just a couple of suggestions.

It sounds like that should be two independent breakers.

You should make sure you do not have a floating neutral.

Don't try to use a modern digital meter to measure the voltage. It will
respond to stray current coming from lines running close to the one you are
measuring. Get an old meter analog meter than has a low internal resistance
to bleed off this voltage to get an meaningful measurement.

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Joseph E. Meehan

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