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17 years ago
It's about safety. The light should still work exactly the same when no one is touching the wires.
Possibly leading to inconsistent readings on different ranges of an analog meter (meter causes a different load on each range).
You are too use to professional level meters. :-) Most digital meters OP's will have low enough resistance they would be lucky to get any readings of voltage no matter what range they used. :-)
Of course you are right.
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