How Do You Read A Digital Multimeter Ohm Scale?
A digital multimeter can be used to measure voltage, amperage and resistance. Resistance values are measured in ohms, thousands-of-ohms, and millions-of-ohms. The reading on a multimeter display will depend upon which measurement type is selected on the multimeter’s selection dial. Using a few simple steps will give you an understandable reading on the meter’s digital display. Turn your multimeter selection dial to measure megohms, if the resistor is known to be at least 1 megohm. (A megohm is 1 million ohms.) Touch the test probes to the device being tested, one probe to one wire lead and another probe to the other wire lead. In the case of measuring ohms, the device will be a resistor. On the display you will see a whole number to the left of a decimal, and a four- or five-place decimal value to the right of the decimal. If you have your dial set to megohms, the whole number to the left of the decimal represents how many millions of ohms the measured object contains. The decimal numb
