i know how but which setting do i put it on? i have many choices once someone tells me which setting i know how to hook it up thanx in advance to any who respond!

 

If it's a digital one, it should either be "autoranging", in which case you just set it to "DC Volts" (for car work) and touch the leads to the 2 points you want to measure woltage between. If it's not autorangiong, i.e. if it has 200 mV, 2V, 20V etc. ranges, put it on the range you expect the voltage you'll be measuring to fll within, i.e. on the 20V range to measure 12V things, or on the 2V range to measure TPS voltage which should be .5 V more or less, etc.

To measure ohms, put it on (duh) ohms, and disconnect the thing you want to measure completely from whatever else it's connected to, and touch the leads to the 2 ends of it. Again, if it's autoranging, it will automatically try to find the range that measures the thing. If it's not, start on the higher resistance ranges, and step the range down (2Mohms, 200 kohms, 20 kohms, etc.) until you get a reading that's usable.

The uses of a meter like that are almost infinite. Rather than thinking of it as "I look in the book to see what this thing is supposed to be and measure it to find out if it's broken", its usefulness lies in the user's ability to devise tests that the meter can then be used to check for.

I can't make you into an electonics tech in one Internet post. If there's something you're specifically trying to do with it, ask that, and no doubt some one of us with an electrical and/or electronic background can point you in the right direction.

 

thanx RB your the man!:hail: :hail: