Re: School is in
I was on a big industrial where the video tech was trouble-shooting a projector issue and he suspected the very long Edison cord that ran up the pick to the unit. He was up in a lift and asked to borrow a meter. As my Fluke case has a nice little strap to clip to the carabiner on his rope, I sent it up to him. He came down as said, "man, there is something really odd, I'm seeing wacky voltages at the end of that cable." I looked down at my meter and it was still on the power-up default, DC measurement scale. That it was finding DC (from a wall outlet) should have been disconcerting, too, but I digress.
When I pointed that out, he went back up and found correct voltage. He spent another hour working on the projector issue; I never found out what the final answer was.
In retrospect, I wish we could have taken some time to figure out if there really was DC present, or that the meter was simply trying to make sense of the input that it was given.
