bukzin wrote:
YC 1 wrote:
The breaker did not trip because there was not enough of a load. I know it is hard to visualize seeing a voltmeter read 120 volts and not have enough power to run a light. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen techs caught by trusting a digital voltmeter.
My understanding is that an analog meter avoids this false reading?
Does this also apply to little cheap meters or good ones like a Simpson?
Even a cheap Radio Shack analog meter will keep you out of trouble in a case like this. The meter movement actually requires a minute amount of current to magnetically move the needle.
