Re: multimeter question

From: N Cook (diverse2_at_tcp.co.antyspahm.uk)
Date: 12/19/04


Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:16:21 -0000


"slight" <fearless@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:41C55EB8.5050504@hotmail.com...
> When i measure resistances with my dmm, i get a different reading if i
> swap the leads around.
> Is this normal?
>

Different contact potentials due to different metals could give an added
V in one sense and a subtracted V to the Vp of the voltage on the probes.

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