Sounds like dirty contacts in your meter. Always touch the probes together at each setting to check for continuity. Stuart -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Neil N Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 12:28 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Volt Ohm Meter: Continuity Checking, Ohm Range Settings Hi all. I'm measuring continuity to track down where I connected a + wire. With battery DISconnected, digital meter @ 200 Ohm range, no continuity seen (displays a 1). At 2000 Ohms (diode test setting): ~ 1700 Ohms. As I increase Ohm range, the decimal point moves, then at 20M Ohm range, I see 0.00. At the highest range, am I seeing a false reading for continuity? Thanks, Neil -- Neil n Blog: tubaneil.blogspot.ca '88 Westy http://tinyurl.com/c8rlw6p '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ Vanagon VAG *Gas* inline-VR Engine Swap Group: |
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