No too long back I brought up reading a backfeed voltage through a residential utility meter. When the meter is set and only one leg is hot to it, you'll read full voltage in the other leg. Generally 1 or 2 volts less.
Here's a picture of a conventional meter back, the coil is connected between legs to generate flux to propel the disc. So, once you hook up one leg, its voltage is induced onto the other. A leg to leg check will read near zero. Also, an electronic meter behaves the same way in regards to backfeed.
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Here's a picture of a conventional meter back, the coil is connected between legs to generate flux to propel the disc. So, once you hook up one leg, its voltage is induced onto the other. A leg to leg check will read near zero. Also, an electronic meter behaves the same way in regards to backfeed.
