You ran full current past it's range or through the shunt like a short
circuit [parallel, not series] and blew out the fuse in the meter.
There are generally 2 current range sockets on a meter, one up to around
200 milliamps and another for up to 10 amps.
Checking current MUST be a series hook up with both leads on [+] *or* [-]
with a break in one wire.
Voltage is a parallel hook up.....one lead on [+] *and* one on [-]
Open up the back and replace the fuse.
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At 04:27 PM 12/20/2007 -0600, you wrote:
Dear Esteemed and Learned List Members,
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I was fooling around with a wall wart that is listed as 24V and 500mA,
and had it hooked up in series with my radioshack multimeter. It tested
as 30.6V, and after I switched it to mA, the meter failed. Now it just
reads micro volts and won't read anything else. Dang! Maybe I had it
on micro amps instead of milliamps, and would that break it?
I need another multimeter! But I don't want to just turn around and
break this one too.
Thanks,
Kathryn
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