[Shop-talk] Those mysterious electrons.....

[Doug Braun]

In my experience, the test leads for your meter can
get old and the wire can break near the connectors at
either end.  This can drive you crazy trying to use
the meter.

Also, you can get a bad connection in your wiring,
with a high resistance that allows the meter to see
the full voltage, but is incapable of supplying any
significant current to a lamp.

Doug

--- Gerald Brazil <gerrybraz at cablespeed.com> wrote:

> I am having trouble understanding what is going on.
> (that's nothing new!)
> Next I took the tape
> off of the end and stuck the probes of my
> multi-meter directly into the
> wires. No reading. So I went the the next light that
> was working and much to
> my surprise, I got no indication of voltage there,
> even though I could plug
> the light back in and it worked fine. Next I went
> directly to the
> transformer feeding the line and got no reading
> there. I then check my meter
> against a battery...it was a perfect 1.5 v. I then
> checked the AC range and
> it was fine too.