Chuck ~ I apologize for my lack of scientific/electrical mind and requesting further clarification, meaning you only get typing practice...but so I completely understand, a "parallel" connection 'seems' to me to be putting my postitive MM lead to my positive battery terminal and my negative MM lead to the same positive silver wire? I believe I crossed over to the opposite (negative) silver wire with my negative MM lead. Is this what I did wrong? Again, sorry for not being up to par, but want to understand before I attempt this again with a new fuse.
If my interpretation of your message below is incorrect, could I have shorted out my fuse by initially taking my positive and negative MM leads and placing them both into the distilled water? =) Don't HIT me too hard, I'm at least trying and give you techies a good laugh once in awhile! Thank you! Julie & Critters > 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]> >
