shorts

[cordar]

hi everyone......this forum is awesome!!!! I do like it better then the other!!! anyways, my question. When im rebuilding, and I use my multimeter to check the resistance, if theres a short will I know by the reading I get on multimeter? or will the mulitmeter still give proper resistance even with a short? thanks

 

[DasBlunderbuss]

If there's a short, the meter will read 0 ohms meaning there's no resistance at all.

 

[cordar]

thank you

 

[DasBlunderbuss]

No problem!

 

[CurlyxCracker]

hi everyone......this forum is awesome!!!! I do like it better then the other!!! anyways, my question. When im rebuilding, and I use my multimeter to check the resistance, if theres a short will I know by the reading I get on multimeter? or will the mulitmeter still give proper resistance even with a short? thanks

If there's a short, the meter will read 0 ohms meaning there's no resistance at all.

This depends on what your meter will read and how low you wish to go. I've seen plenty of <0.1ohm builds (ex. 0.06), if your meter doesn't go to hundredths of an ohm you'll get whatever the resistance of your probes on a multimeter or something like my mvp stops reading well before 0.1 ohm.