Multimeter Tutorial part 3 – Voltage!

Voltage is the name of Todd Bailey’s band. This tutorial is not about that, however. It is about how to use your multimeter!

Part 3 of this exciting series sees our protagonist in AC/DC land taking care of three common tasks:

Testing batteries!

Measuring wall supplies!

Checking out wall-sockets!


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Filed under: EE — by ladyada, posted September 4, 2007 at 9:33 pm

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2 Comments

  1. Great blog.I’m always a bit scared to poke into wall socket type of things,did that once and it made the positive probe on my multimeter a bit shorter… oh well we all have to learn

    Comment by Arno B — September 6, 2007 @ 4:58 pm

  2. AC line voltage is 120V RMS, or 170V peak and 340V peak-to-peak.

    Comment by asdf — September 6, 2007 @ 8:03 pm

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