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Old 11-15-2015, 04:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Graham View Post
Stretch - In the picture below, you don't have a lead connected to the COM port. You always have the black lead in the COM port and then you move from the main + port to the 10A port when you want to measure above 400mA.



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Good eye Graham !
Soo true... com (common) is com regardless of whats being measured.
Sorry to disappoint chaps - that picture was used as an example of the crappier types of multimeter I have kicking about the place. The picture shows me measuring something else that isn't related to this problem.
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