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QuestionWhat is the first thing to do when using the ohmmeter?Daniel Stoescu is a Master Electrician and the Owner and Operator of Home Tech Solutions, LLC in Hampton, Virginia. With over a decade of experience, Daniel specializes in wiring residential, commercial, and light industrial structures. The Home Tech Solutions team has over four decades of combined experience and offers comprehensive solutions for residential electrical needs.Before taking any measurements, make sure the ohmmeter works by touching the leads together.
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QuestionCan you use an ohmmeter on a live circuit?Daniel Stoescu is a Master Electrician and the Owner and Operator of Home Tech Solutions, LLC in Hampton, Virginia. With over a decade of experience, Daniel specializes in wiring residential, commercial, and light industrial structures. The Home Tech Solutions team has over four decades of combined experience and offers comprehensive solutions for residential electrical needs.No, you can't. You should never use your ohmmeter to test any live circuits.
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QuestionHow do you use measured ohmmeter resistance directly?Community AnswerYou can use it by determining if a device is shorted or open. This type of test is called OUT-OF-THE -CIRCUIT test. Examples are: Testing a fuse, breaker, switch, filaments etc.
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QuestionWhere do I set the multi-meter dial when I measure a ripple?Community AnswerIf the ripple you are talking about is from a power supply circuit (diode, unfiltered and unregulated), ripple frequencies in a power supply circuit cannot be tested with an ordinary multi-meter. You should use a dual or single trace oscilloscope. From the screen of the scope, you can see the waveform of the ripple frequency.
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QuestionHow do I check the NPN transistor?Community AnswerMeasure diode resistance with the DVM one way and then the other. One measurement will be high resistance; the other low. Check collector to base diode; then check base to emitter. Some more sophisticated multimeters have transistor measurement holes too if it is out of circuit.
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QuestionHow do I check a marine battery for a short?Community AnswerCheck the voltage directly on the positive and negative terminals of the battery. If you have a fresh battery rated at 9 volts and your voltage reading on your multi-meter is 20% below the rated voltage on the battery, the battery is defective.
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QuestionWhat are the low and high values on an ohm meter?Community AnswerLow for an ohm meter would be 0 ohms, or a perfect short. High readings are infinite ohms, which usually is an overload (OL) reading.
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QuestionHow do I test if I have power in an outlet with an ohmmeter?Community AnswerTurn to volts and stick the probes in each side (red to small), then read.
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QuestionWhy should I never test ECU with an ohmmeter directly?Community AnswerThe battery that supplies power to the ohmmeter can feed back into the ECU and cause damage to the internal components.
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Questioncan this steps be also used on analogue?Samuel C. KingCommunity AnswerAbsolutely! The steps are identical for both an analogue and digital ohmmeter. The only difference is how the ohms are represented on the device. Analog machines use a needle, whereas digital ohmmeters use a digital screen.
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QuestionWhat does the hold button do on my multimeter?Samuel C. KingCommunity AnswerAll the hold button does is "lock" your reading into place on the screen so you can look at it for longer.
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QuestionHow do I test the heating element on my dryer?Samuel C. KingCommunity AnswerFirst, remove the element from the dryer and disconnect it from any source of power. Then, touch one of the probes to one of the element's terminals, and touch the other probe to the other terminal. This should give you a reading on the element's resistance.
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QuestionHow do I check a boat battery?Samuel C. KingCommunity AnswerFirst, disconnect the battery from any source of power. Then, isolate the length of circuit that you want to check. Finally, touch the ohmmeter's probes to the opposite ends of the circuit to get a reading.
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QuestionDoes OL mean the circuit is good or bad on an ohmmeter?Community AnswerOpen Line=meaning the circuit is not complete, i.e., the circuit does not have continuity.
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