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Ev Archive for April 2000
1598 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:48:15 2001

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Re: gaining energy overnight



> 1. The E-meter itself have an offset error of 42mA. (I.e. the E-meter
> thinks that 0v on the shunt is 42ma).
>
> 2. The E-meter's shunt wires are faulty or hooked up wrong (picking up
> noise, thermal emf, voltage drops, etc.
>
> 3. You have some load connected to the E-meter shunt wrong.
>
> 4. You have a ground fault that's causing a leakage current through the
> shunt.
> --

Couldn't this just be due to the battery voltage recovering?  As I
understand it, a little while after batteries are under load, the voltage
recovers some.  If this is the case, could it just be the E-meter thinks
that the batteries were being charged slightly?