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<blockquote data-quote="Eric1066" data-source="post: 545099" data-attributes="member: 35708"><p>I'm so sorry, reading that again I'm assuming you're explaining why I see 240v displayed on the meter... potential difference... ok.... </p><p></p><p>That doesn't mean anything to me. Is there 240v electric running across my frame and if i touch it I will get shocked... or, is the 240v displayed because this is not how to test if I have electrified the frame and touching ANY hot wire to ANY neutral/ground would display this despite no actual live power is running along the metal frame?</p><p></p><p>For example: an independent free standing metal ladder that has been earthed, which I know I can touch and is not electrified in any way. If i touch it with a probe and the other probe is on a live wire out of a nearby socket... would my display read 240v??? </p><p></p><p>And if this is so, then this is not how to test the electrification of something. So, if I wanted to know isomething was electrified, using as an example again, an independent metal ladder? how would I do that?</p><p></p><p>i know that there are these screwdriver looking things with a little light, but I dont have one of those, i thought the multimeter would be better. </p><p></p><p>Please, with no liability to anyone and with the information and the installation description I have given, lets call this a perfectly 100% described hypothetical situation, is the metal frame going to electrocute someone?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eric1066, post: 545099, member: 35708"] I'm so sorry, reading that again I'm assuming you're explaining why I see 240v displayed on the meter... potential difference... ok.... That doesn't mean anything to me. Is there 240v electric running across my frame and if i touch it I will get shocked... or, is the 240v displayed because this is not how to test if I have electrified the frame and touching ANY hot wire to ANY neutral/ground would display this despite no actual live power is running along the metal frame? For example: an independent free standing metal ladder that has been earthed, which I know I can touch and is not electrified in any way. If i touch it with a probe and the other probe is on a live wire out of a nearby socket... would my display read 240v??? And if this is so, then this is not how to test the electrification of something. So, if I wanted to know isomething was electrified, using as an example again, an independent metal ladder? how would I do that? i know that there are these screwdriver looking things with a little light, but I dont have one of those, i thought the multimeter would be better. Please, with no liability to anyone and with the information and the installation description I have given, lets call this a perfectly 100% described hypothetical situation, is the metal frame going to electrocute someone? [/QUOTE]
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