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Hard to say. It was a green wire and a green boot. Green is often the color for earth ground, but that would hardly seem relative in this application. It was taped (sticky mess) to the green inductive cable and a part of that cannon connector. So maybe it was a plan related to that, though I...

SOLVED: I disassembled the cannon connector and identified the pin receptacle that the mystery green test lead was terminated upon. There was no mating pin within the cannon jack of the meter chassis, just an empty pin location. So this green mystery test lead was doing nothing. I removed it...

Thank you rustyzman. I had already came upon that thread and downloaded the listed manuals. Unfortunatley, thee was not a service manual. Yes, I'll post what i find out.

Thank you for the reply. This is in addition to the blue regulator lead. I'm starting to think this maybe a test lead someone added. At first, I thought it a part of the factory build, as it had the same general purpose spring clip and the corresponding green rubber cover boot. However, as...

Yes, there is a multi-conductor green cable that has the inductive pickup at one end and the other end terminated within the cannon connector. In addition to that, there also is a green #18 test prod (rubber jacketed) wire that also terminates within the same cannon connector as the green...

I just acquired a VAT-40 for $40. It is the silver cased model, so I'm assuming it is a later vintage. I was able to source the manuals from another thread on this forum. This particular unit has a test lead that is not discussed in any of the manuals. It is green test prod wire with a...