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Old 08-18-2005, 02:07 PM
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I am screwing around with my H2 adding a bunch of stuff, the whole front interior is or has been out, etc. I have my voltmeter out checking voltage on a couple of things (I have a couple of things hardwired in that have to have their voltage lowered).

So, I have my voltmeter this morning checking what's hot or not in some of the empty slots in the I/P Relay box. I have the Neg lead grounded and happened to be holding the Pos lead by the metal with my hand and touched the seat. I noticed the voltmeter jumped.

Of course this happens but it did not settle back to zero. It jumped to about .12V and stayed. I removed my hand from the seat and it settled back to zero. Put my hand back with the lead touching my skin and back to .11-.14V

This has got me curious now. I put the lead directly on the seat and voltage stays at zero. Back to touching skin and hand touching seat and it registers again. I finally end up moving it around and get to a point just above the driver's side rear sill plate where the voltage steadily registers .45V.

What causes this? Again, I place the lead in direct contact with the surface and it's zero. Lead only touching my skin.... zero. It's the combo of the lead touching my skin and my skin touching the truck's interior.
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