Is It a Backfed or Induced Voltage?

Electrical Testing Safety – Part 2
As your test probes touch the circuit, you get a voltage where there should be none! What’s going on? Well, besides the possibility that you might be on the wrong piece of equipment (yes, it has been known to happen), you might be experiencing backfed or induced voltage. Jim White, training director at Shermco Industries, explains this and more in the second application note of this two-part series.
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