mrk89
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- Pittsburgh, PA U.S.A.
Hi. I am new to this site. I have been reading threads on here for years but never contributed till now. This is the second time I ran into this problem in the past six months. After disconnecting knob and tube wiring from a single pole single throw switch. I am reading 122 volts on (a Sperry 540 multimeter) between the hot wire entering the junction box and the load wire going to the light. these 2 wires are the only 2 wires in the JB. The old switch was working fine but the customer wants to update to a dimmer. When I touch the 2 wires together the fixture lights turn on with no problem. I installed the dimmer and it works fine but obviously no ground. I just don't feel right walking away from that weird voltage reading. I've seen phantom voltage readings before but never so high and never between the line and load of a switch. This happened to me about six months ago but that time I was using a Fluke 325 Multimeter and the 119 volts was at a 3way switch between one of the travelers and the point wire going to the light fixture. None of the fixtures involved had ballasts.......any thoughts...Thank You.