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jeffwhite
Explorer
Mar 04, 2018

How to read a digital multimeter, to measure batteries

I have a "Sperry DM-210A" digital multimeter and I'm trying to measure the voltage of my RV batteries.I'm trying to measure the voltage on a 6volt battery (golf cart battery) and a 12V deep cycle batt...
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Tom_M1
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Mar 05, 2018
garry1p wrote:
The internal meter battery is used for the display and ohm setting only. If the display looks good the meter should be good to go for battery testing.
Not true.

Replace the meter battery. If you get the same results, you have a bad meter or perhaps bad leads.

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