Paco Hope on Nostr: Ok #electronics nerds. I must be doing something wrong. (Edit: *Narrator*: he was ...
Ok #electronics nerds. I must be doing something wrong.
(Edit: *Narrator*: he was doing something wrong. As usual. Probes plugged into the wrong holes on the multimeter!)
If I put my multimeter on resistance (that’s what I have done, isn’t it?) and I touch the 2 probes together, I expect to see basically 0 resistance. But I see 12.59. Then I touch the probes to the 2 terminals of my thermistor. I get basically the same reading. That makes no sense to me.
I mean, I think the thermistor has gone bad, but I also don’t understand whether I’m doing this right. Is this actually a common failure mode for thermistors or am I doing something dumb with my multimeter?
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