Analog vs. Digital Multimeter. You'll want a digital multimeter in most DIY electrical situations. Learning how to use and read a digital multimeter is much simpler than analog.

While using a digital multimeter to diagnose electrical problems on customers’ equipment, I frequently hear the comment, “I’ve got one of those multimeter things, ...

Multimeters seem simple enough to use. You turn it on, connect the leads, then start poking things. Really though, there’s a quite a bit going on in a ...

I’m about to buy a digital multimeter to troubleshoot all sorts of electrical issues around my home. I’ll be blunt. Do you own one? If so, which one? What do you like about the one you have?

The problem is, people get confused on how to use a multimeter, and that's where I'm hoping to help. First off, for a meter to keep in the Jeep, don't go getting the $300 unit that does inductive ...

Visit our Prototyping (3rd) floor to see our free-to-use project materials including wire, resistors, and capacitors. Keithley 2000 Digital Multimeter Technical Information. For complete technical ...

These scales determine how much current the multimeter will use during the test. For example, my multimeter has scales for 200 ohms, 2 K ohms, 200 K ohms, 2 M ohms, and 20 M ohms.

You can use a multimeter with capacitance-measurement capability to measure the length of wire or cable to an open circuit. The capacitance of a pair of wires (or a wire to a shield) is directly ...