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Christopher Key wrote:
Only if there is a load though surely. The current drawn by a DMM
will be many orders of magnitude smaller than that required.

Agreed, but that detail was obvious to me ;-)

I didn't doubt it ;-) ! I did get the impression that it wasn't to the
OP though, hence the post.

My thoughts. He mentioned getting 240 volts at the bulbholder, so I
assumed that was without the bulb in place.

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