Hi, at the risk of sounding like a complete loon......
Went to fit a curtain pole up so we can have a curtain in front of the kitchen door.
Used a voltage tester to detect any live wires behind where I need to drill and the detector gave a periodic beep on one side of where I want to drill, but not the other. Fine so there must be voltage behind it. It certainly isn't metal only that's being detected because that would give a continuous tone.
Now comes the weird bit. Looking to see if I could find a better place to drill I scanned other areas, and voltage was being detected was being detected. There appeared to be more areas where voltage was being detected than not, to the point where I thought it must be broken. I found that one half of the living room (which is adjacent to the kitchen) did the same everywhere, but the other side of the living room (facing the front of the house) there was no voltage detected except where you would expect it, i.e around plug sockets and light switches.
Even weirder is that we have antique pine style internal doors, that when I sweep the voltage detecter around it, parts of the door are detected as having voltage, but just random areas of the door, it differs from door to door in the house. Even my pine dressing table gets detected as having voltage.
I've tried with a basic cheapo Wilkos tester that does metal and voltage for £14, and also a £40 Stanley that does voltage and various metals. The result is exactly the same for both.
I've got (what I believe) is a decent grasp of physics and assume that some kind of electromagnetic field gets generated by AC, enough to be detected. Either that or the detector generates an EM field and the AC interferes with it.
I'm sorry if this is the stupidest question asked on this forum, but can anyone tell me what on earth is going on here, as it's driving me crazy. Thank you BTW for having the patience to read my small essay.
Went to fit a curtain pole up so we can have a curtain in front of the kitchen door.
Used a voltage tester to detect any live wires behind where I need to drill and the detector gave a periodic beep on one side of where I want to drill, but not the other. Fine so there must be voltage behind it. It certainly isn't metal only that's being detected because that would give a continuous tone.
Now comes the weird bit. Looking to see if I could find a better place to drill I scanned other areas, and voltage was being detected was being detected. There appeared to be more areas where voltage was being detected than not, to the point where I thought it must be broken. I found that one half of the living room (which is adjacent to the kitchen) did the same everywhere, but the other side of the living room (facing the front of the house) there was no voltage detected except where you would expect it, i.e around plug sockets and light switches.
Even weirder is that we have antique pine style internal doors, that when I sweep the voltage detecter around it, parts of the door are detected as having voltage, but just random areas of the door, it differs from door to door in the house. Even my pine dressing table gets detected as having voltage.
I've tried with a basic cheapo Wilkos tester that does metal and voltage for £14, and also a £40 Stanley that does voltage and various metals. The result is exactly the same for both.
I've got (what I believe) is a decent grasp of physics and assume that some kind of electromagnetic field gets generated by AC, enough to be detected. Either that or the detector generates an EM field and the AC interferes with it.
I'm sorry if this is the stupidest question asked on this forum, but can anyone tell me what on earth is going on here, as it's driving me crazy. Thank you BTW for having the patience to read my small essay.