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Engineers request that 5 meg ohm is the bottom limit. I use 1 meg as a bottom limit when megging conductors before they are energized. I have run motors as low as .5 meg, when the moisture is driven out by the heat of the motors operation the motors usually climbs up to about 2 meg ohms.

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