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Old 10-05-2018, 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by JagV8
Note: to switch to a mA scale you probably have to start on an A one and on many meters if you switch it will momentarily disconnect - which you do not want. You'd have to bypass the meter before you switch then afterwards remove the bypass.
Good advice. Do not start measuring the current draw from the battery on any scale lower than 10 Amps, otherwise you will just blow the fuse in your multimeter. and it will do nothing. When the current flow shown on the 10A scale drops below the next scale, you can switch over to it. If the next scale is, for example, 400 mA, then you can only switch to it when the 10A scale shows less than 0.4 A. But, before switching, you have to bridge the multimeter probes (kept connected to the battery circuit) with a piece of wire and remove the wire when the switch-over is done.
 

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