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I have analog voltmeters hanging off of my ZW outputs.  Recently I noticed that when the throttle on the “A” was set to 0V but the “B” throttle was set to some non-zero voltage, my “A” voltmeter showed about 2V.  Bringing the “B” throttle down to 0V caused the “A” voltmeter to then read the expected 0V.  Likewise, I can get the “C” voltmeter to read about 2V when then “A” throttle is non-zero.  I confirmed my measurements at the ZW’s binding posts with a DMM and they concur with my analog voltmeters.

I’m guessing (hoping?) that one throttle is inducing voltage on the others – but is this the case and is this significant of an induction normal?  Or is there something leaking somewhere inside the ZW I need to track down?  I swear it wasn’t doing this before.   Can anyone check to see if they have this phenomenon?

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ADCX Rob posted:

My ZWs all do this.

With any load, the circuit goes to zero.

Do you mean if there is a load on the "inducer" output that the "induced" output then goes to 0V?  If so, that's not what's happening for me - the inducer is drawing about 1A (although I can disconnect it and achieve the same effect).  Hmmm....

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