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How to use a multimeter for measuring a current???
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Re: How to use a multimeter for measuring a curren
suggestion for Lasersbee: take a Tylenol or something - you're just provoking normal defensiveness.
suggestion for Milan: stop defending yourself - you're just encouraging him.
To the point: the voltage-across-resistor is more accurate most of the time. That's because inside the multimeter, it actually has a resistor... it measures th voltage across that resistor... and depending on what range it is on, that resistance in series with your circuit will affect how much current the circuit draws - thus affecting the very thing it is supposed to be measuring. By using a 1-ohm resistor you are putting a known amount of resistance in the circuit, a small amount.
DanQ
suggestion for Lasersbee: take a Tylenol or something - you're just provoking normal defensiveness.
suggestion for Milan: stop defending yourself - you're just encouraging him.
To the point: the voltage-across-resistor is more accurate most of the time. That's because inside the multimeter, it actually has a resistor... it measures th voltage across that resistor... and depending on what range it is on, that resistance in series with your circuit will affect how much current the circuit draws - thus affecting the very thing it is supposed to be measuring. By using a 1-ohm resistor you are putting a known amount of resistance in the circuit, a small amount.
DanQ
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Re: How to use a multimeter for measuring a curren
cheers Dan, for suggestion and for explanation as well..
DanQ said:
cheers Dan, for suggestion and for explanation as well..
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Re: How to use a multimeter for measuring a curren
ROFL.... Thanks DanQ... I needed that.... Just took one... ;D ;D ;D a little levity never hurts...
Jerry
DanQ said:
ROFL.... Thanks DanQ... I needed that.... Just took one... ;D ;D ;D a little levity never hurts...
Jerry
Re: How to use a multimeter for measuring a curren
that happened way too often in this rather heated thread... :
//edit: before someone gets it wrong, it happened for me too. i'm not trying to offend anyone!
lasersbee said:That quote was directed at Milan... not you Kendon...
It has been edited...
that happened way too often in this rather heated thread... :
//edit: before someone gets it wrong, it happened for me too. i'm not trying to offend anyone!
