Thanks CK. I will take a look at this and look to see if I blew a fuse as George suggested. It still measures the volts from the batteries and other current settings. I get nothing for the mA's tho! =(
Julie & Critters ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:16 PM Subject: Re: CS>DW Readings > On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:56:52 -0700, "wolfcreek1" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > >My DMM says my 27 volt (3-9 volt batteries) are putting out 28 volts. But > >when I put the positive red lead to the positive battery terminal and the > >black negative lead to the brew cell terminal I get a 0 reading when set on > >the 20 ma setting. HELP! > > If you actually did what you say you did, you've shorted out your batteries and > will need new ones. > > When you measure voltage, you place your MM leads on both sides of what you want > to measure the voltage across. This is a parallel connection. > You've done this correctly! > Current is measured in series and some load must be in the circuit to limit the > current. That's the water! > > When you measure current (that's the milliamps) you must break the circuit > between one battery terminal,connect one terminal of the multimeter, then > connect the other terminal of the MM to the silver wire. > So The leg to one silver element will be: > Battery terminal-> MMterminal->other MMterminal ->silver wire ->water. > The other leg will be: Other battery terminal ->other silver wire -> water. > > As an aside, if this were an analog multimeter instead of a digital, it most > probably would have destroyed the meter. > > Chuck > Spending a year dead for tax purposes ! > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
