Iain's Electronics Page

Using a Multimeter

Measuring Voltage

To measure voltage on a battery.This is an example of a 1.4 AA battery.

• black goes to the negative and red to the positive or knobbley end.
• make sure black lead is in COM on the multimeter
• make sure red lead is in V on the multimeter
• connecting in correctly will result in a negative number
• the numbers in the V section are the range in mA.
• using the 200mA will result in 1364 or 1.364 Volts

Measuring Circuit

Below we have a circuit with a battery, resister and LED.

Here would be the circuit diagram.