Understanding multimeter readout

"Jamie" <jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> wrote in message
news:S1uYi.156$me2.147@newsfe06.lga...
John Fields wrote:

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:03:49 +1100, "Phil Allison"
philallison@tpg.com.au> wrote:


"John Fields"
"Phil Allison"

"Dave.H"

I recently bought a 43 range multimeter in my bid to learn how to
restore old radios, When testing a modern carbon film? resistor,
that's supposed to have a value of 2200 mega ohms,


** You need to learn how to read resistor codes.

Cos there are no such resistors in radios or elsewhere.

---
???

http://www.ohmite.com/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?product=supermox


** To have " such " a resistor as the OP claimed he had, you need to
show me
an example of a genuine, 2200 megohm resistor marked only with colour
code.

---
Why?

** Cos that is what MY post said - fuckwit.



My quarrel wasn't with your stating that it was impossible for
the resistor that the OP was referring to to be 2G2R, it was with
your statement that: "there are no such resistors in radios or
elsewhere.", when clearly there are such resistors elsewhere.


** My word " such " refers to the resistor the OP claimed he had.

" Cos there are no such resistors ( as the one you are claiming you have)
in radios or elsewhere".

My comment was directed to the OP, who had apparently misread a colour
code. If he did not misread, then his alleged resistor has to comply
with my request above.


If YOU paid the proper attention to context and who is speaking to whom
about what, you just might make less dumb, autistic mistakes like
is - John.

But I doubt you have that ability.


---
Me? LOL, had you but intelligently limited your statement to: ...
"there are no such resistors in radios", your goal of properly
chastising the OP would have been met and you'd have had no response
from me.

But, since you decided to include the: "or elsewhere" part, you
clearly were in error since 2G2 resistors _do_ exist outside of the
world of radio.

Why not just own up to your mistake instead of trying to be a Larkin
clone?


Now now John, lets me nice.
Click to expand...
Actually, Phil is frequently right about many things - its his nasty
attitude a lot of the time that makes it such a result when someone catches
him in the wrong.
 
John Fields wrote:

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:03:49 +1100, "Phil Allison"
philallison@tpg.com.au> wrote:


"John Fields"
"Phil Allison"

"Dave.H"

I recently bought a 43 range multimeter in my bid to learn how to
restore old radios, When testing a modern carbon film? resistor,
that's supposed to have a value of 2200 mega ohms,


** You need to learn how to read resistor codes.

Cos there are no such resistors in radios or elsewhere.

---
???

http://www.ohmite.com/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?product=supermox


** To have " such " a resistor as the OP claimed he had, you need to show
me
an example of a genuine, 2200 megohm resistor marked only with colour
code.

---
Why?

** Cos that is what MY post said - fuckwit.



My quarrel wasn't with your stating that it was impossible for
the resistor that the OP was referring to to be 2G2R, it was with
your statement that: "there are no such resistors in radios or
elsewhere.", when clearly there are such resistors elsewhere.


** My word " such " refers to the resistor the OP claimed he had.

" Cos there are no such resistors ( as the one you are claiming you have) in
radios or elsewhere".

My comment was directed to the OP, who had apparently misread a colour code.
If he did not misread, then his alleged resistor has to comply with my
request above.


If YOU paid the proper attention to context and who is speaking to whom
about what, you just might make less dumb, autistic mistakes like this -
John.

But I doubt you have that ability.


---
Me? LOL, had you but intelligently limited your statement to: ...
"there are no such resistors in radios", your goal of properly
chastising the OP would have been met and you'd have had no response
from me.

But, since you decided to include the: "or elsewhere" part, you
clearly were in error since 2G2 resistors _do_ exist outside of the
world of radio.

Why not just own up to your mistake instead of trying to be a Larkin
clone?


Now now John, lets me nice.
Click to expand...

I know i'm trying very hard but, Eeyore brings out the best in me.
Oops, did I say that! :)




--
"I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken"
Real Programmers Do things like this.
http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5
 
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:03:49 +1100, "Phil Allison"
<philallison@tpg.com.au> wrote:

"John Fields"
"Phil Allison"

"Dave.H"

I recently bought a 43 range multimeter in my bid to learn how to
restore old radios, When testing a modern carbon film? resistor,
that's supposed to have a value of 2200 mega ohms,


** You need to learn how to read resistor codes.

Cos there are no such resistors in radios or elsewhere.

---
???

http://www.ohmite.com/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?product=supermox


** To have " such " a resistor as the OP claimed he had, you need to show
me
an example of a genuine, 2200 megohm resistor marked only with colour
code.

---
Why?

** Cos that is what MY post said - fuckwit.


My quarrel wasn't with your stating that it was impossible for
the resistor that the OP was referring to to be 2G2R, it was with
your statement that: "there are no such resistors in radios or
elsewhere.", when clearly there are such resistors elsewhere.


** My word " such " refers to the resistor the OP claimed he had.

" Cos there are no such resistors ( as the one you are claiming you have) in
radios or elsewhere".

My comment was directed to the OP, who had apparently misread a colour code.
If he did not misread, then his alleged resistor has to comply with my
request above.


If YOU paid the proper attention to context and who is speaking to whom
about what, you just might make less dumb, autistic mistakes like this -
John.

But I doubt you have that ability.
Click to expand...
---
Me? LOL, had you but intelligently limited your statement to: ...
"there are no such resistors in radios", your goal of properly
chastising the OP would have been met and you'd have had no response
from me.

But, since you decided to include the: "or elsewhere" part, you
clearly were in error since 2G2 resistors _do_ exist outside of the
world of radio.

Why not just own up to your mistake instead of trying to be a Larkin
clone?


--
JF
 
Dave.H wrote:

I recently bought a 43 range multimeter in my bid to learn how to
restore old radios, When testing a modern carbon film? resistor,
that's supposed to have a value of 2200 mega ohms, the display just
switches back and forth from 1.0 to 1.1 What does this mean? I'm
still learning on using the multimeter, by the way.

Well, first of all. Is that meter capable of testing 2200 megs?
Click to expand...

My guess it's not.
Secondly, make sure your fingers are not touching the probe tips.

Thirdly, May I suggest you're mistaken about the value of the
resistor under test ?


--
"I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken"
Real Programmers Do things like this.
http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5
 
"John Fields"
"Phil Allison"
"Dave.H"

I recently bought a 43 range multimeter in my bid to learn how to
restore old radios, When testing a modern carbon film? resistor,
that's supposed to have a value of 2200 mega ohms,


** You need to learn how to read resistor codes.

Cos there are no such resistors in radios or elsewhere.

---
???

http://www.ohmite.com/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?product=supermox


** To have " such " a resistor as the OP claimed he had, you need to show
me
an example of a genuine, 2200 megohm resistor marked only with colour
code.

---
Why?
Click to expand...
** Cos that is what MY post said - fuckwit.


My quarrel wasn't with your stating that it was impossible for
the resistor that the OP was referring to to be 2G2R, it was with
your statement that: "there are no such resistors in radios or
elsewhere.", when clearly there are such resistors elsewhere.
Click to expand...

** My word " such " refers to the resistor the OP claimed he had.

" Cos there are no such resistors ( as the one you are claiming you have) in
radios or elsewhere".

My comment was directed to the OP, who had apparently misread a colour code.
If he did not misread, then his alleged resistor has to comply with my
request above.


If YOU paid the proper attention to context and who is speaking to whom
about what, you just might make less dumb, autistic mistakes like this -
John.

But I doubt you have that ability.



....... Phil
 
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:44:19 +1100, "Phil Allison"
<philallison@tpg.com.au> wrote:

"John Fields"
"Phil Allison"

"Dave.H"

I recently bought a 43 range multimeter in my bid to learn how to
restore old radios, When testing a modern carbon film? resistor,
that's supposed to have a value of 2200 mega ohms,


** You need to learn how to read resistor codes.

Cos there are no such resistors in radios or elsewhere.

---
???

http://www.ohmite.com/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?product=supermox


** To have " such " a resistor as the OP claimed he had, you need to show me
an example of a genuine, 2200 megohm resistor marked only with colour code.
Click to expand...
---
Why? My quarrel wasn't with your stating that it was impossible for
the resistor that the OP was referring to to be 2G2R, it was with
your statement that: "there are no such resistors in radios or
elsewhere.", when clearly there are such resistors elsewhere.

As for the color code, it would be red red grey gold for +/- 5% or
red red grey silver for +/- 10%. ;)


--
JF
 
"John Fields"
"Phil Allison"
"Dave.H"

I recently bought a 43 range multimeter in my bid to learn how to
restore old radios, When testing a modern carbon film? resistor,
that's supposed to have a value of 2200 mega ohms,


** You need to learn how to read resistor codes.

Cos there are no such resistors in radios or elsewhere.

---
???

http://www.ohmite.com/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?product=supermox
Click to expand...

** To have " such " a resistor as the OP claimed he had, you need to show me
an example of a genuine, 2200 megohm resistor marked only with colour code.




....... Phil
 
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 19:00:32 +1100, "Phil Allison"
<philallison@tpg.com.au> wrote:

"Dave.H"

I recently bought a 43 range multimeter in my bid to learn how to
restore old radios, When testing a modern carbon film? resistor,
that's supposed to have a value of 2200 mega ohms,


** You need to learn how to read resistor codes.

Cos there are no such resistors in radios or elsewhere.
Click to expand...
---
???

http://www.ohmite.com/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?product=supermox


--
JF
 
On Nov 7, 6:40 pm, "Dave.H" <the19...@googlemail.com> wrote:
I recently bought a 43 range multimeter in my bid to learn how to
restore old radios, When testing a modern carbon film? resistor,
that's supposed to have a value of 2200 mega ohms, the display just
switches back and forth from 1.0 to 1.1 What does this mean? I'm
still learning on using the multimeter, by the way.
Click to expand...
2200Mohms? I suspect you've read that value incorrectly. You won't get
common resistors that high in value. Also, your average multimeter can
only read up to 20Mohms.

Also, if your display is only showing one decimal point then you have
the range set too high (or you are already on the lowest range
possible), in which case lower the range to get more resolution
(decimal places).

Try typing "multimeter tutorial" into Google and start surfing.

Dave.
 
"Dave.H"
I recently bought a 43 range multimeter in my bid to learn how to
restore old radios, When testing a modern carbon film? resistor,
that's supposed to have a value of 2200 mega ohms,
Click to expand...

** You need to learn how to read resistor codes.

Cos there are no such resistors in radios or elsewhere.

Highest value you will likely ever see is 22 Mohms

- banded: red, red, blue.

OR, for really old ones

red body, red end and a blue dot in the middle.




....... Phil
 
D

Dave.H

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I recently bought a 43 range multimeter in my bid to learn how to
restore old radios, When testing a modern carbon film? resistor,
that's supposed to have a value of 2200 mega ohms, the display just
switches back and forth from 1.0 to 1.1 What does this mean? I'm
still learning on using the multimeter, by the way.
 
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