you should take care to ensure that the circuit components being analysed are isolated from the power supply.
only carry these test out if you are completely confidnet that your safety is guarranteed from a possable electric shock.
you should also take care to ensure that the electrical contact restistance
across your fingers and hand do not give a false reading
where they would allow a leakage of small electrical current thruogh your fingers
if you choose to hold your measuring probes of the meter onto the restance - component with your fingers directly.
although this isnt reccomended .
you should use approved equipment designed to connect to any terminals or components safely ; crocdile clips .
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Actually, measuring winding resistance with a multimeter is an iffy situation at best. This is because the multimeter will not tell you if one of the turns is shorted, causing Q to drastically suffer, it will really only tell you if the winding is open, or if it is shorted to something it should not be shorted to, such as the frame. This is especially true for larger windings, in larger transformers and motors, because their DC resistance is so close to zero that you might not be able to tell if they are shorted or normal. Using a multimeter is a good start, to make sure that basics are covered, and it might tell you if the winding is dead shorted, but you need to know for sure what the expected DC resistance is, and you need to know that you multimeter is very good in the low Ohms scale.
An electronic measuring device also known as a multimeter is used to check the electrical voltage in homes and industrial areas. The checks that need to be done before a multimeter is used is the to plug the black test lead into the black socket marked com. The red lead plugs into the red socket marked voltage and resistance.
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The effect the multimeter might have on the circuit when inserted to measure the current is to increase the circuit resistance and decrease the available voltage to the circuit. This is because the multimeter in amps or milliamps mode does have a small resistance which is not zero, so by Ohm's law, there is a voltage drop across the multimeter; small, but not zero. Usually this effect is small. One way to compensate is to start by measuring voltage, and then inserting a separate ammeter and adjusting the power supply to match the original voltage. Of course, the voltmeter must be downstream of the ammeter.
we can measure the resistance of the motor by using voltmeter ammeter method of by directly using a multimeter across the armature terminals of the motor in voltmeter ammeter method we should use a less value of dc voltage to find the resistance