Choke Voltage - Is This Right?

[LuvNLife]

I've got a Street Demon 625 carb with the electric choke on my new 350/260 crate engine. Since the carb was new, about a year ago, I've never been able to get the choke to work correctly - it kept coming back on, no matter how warm the engine was. Right now, it's cranked all the way to try and defeat the choke, but it seems even that's not working; it's super rich at idle.

I got a new multimeter, new batteries in it and tested the choke voltage. With the key on, it's showing 11.77 volts. With the engine running, it's giving me 14.2. The documentation for the carb shows it has to have 12 volts, no less, to work properly, so I'm a bit stumped at the moment. I'm thinking defective choke, but wanted some input on whether it might be getting too much voltage.

Thanks!

Jerry