At 08:12 AM 7/25/01 -0500, you wrote:
>First thing I tried... It promptly heated up way beyond being
>touchable...

Ok, well, you don't happen to have a capacitor connected to the
output do you?  Or a long cable?

Like most voltage-output devices, these things are senstive to
capacitive loading and will oscillate away causing all kinds of
strange readings on a DVM.

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