[Amps] Hot Chasis Problem

aborg a_borg at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 29 10:14:46 EDT 2005


This chassis definitely is hot, it bites pretty good.
Using 
a piece wire touching from chassis to another contact
chassis point yields a pretty good spark.
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--- Sam <w4oae at comcast.net> wrote:
> Your hot chassis could just be a phantom voltage
> reading.  IE there isn't any real current potential
> between the B- and chassis ground.  Due to the very
> high impedance of the probe it shows a voltage
> potential due to the internal resistance of the
> probe being so high.  Try shunting the HV probe with
> a few megs of resistance and see what happens.  
> 
> W4OAE

Mike-KK4MS
a_borg at yahoo.com

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