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Most Basic Multi-Meter Question

By SantaEatsCheese

4 years ago



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#1 4 years ago

How do I verify these electronic components are working with a multimeter?

If you could direct me to the setting on the dial of this basic multimeter, I would greatly appreciate it.

Through various troubleshooting steps I believe that the issues I am experiencing on my Pinbot are on this board. All of these electronic components "don't know what they are called" should be identical based off of their markings. If I tap this board, weird things start to happened and I'd like to test the individual components. Logic would state that these all had the same resistance with the machine powered down, but I cannot seem to measure anything here. I am assuming I put one multimeter probe on each side of the same black component, and should be able to measure the amount of power going through them but I can't detect anything with any of these functions.

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#2 4 years ago

Those are diodes. You want the diode/sound setting/ at about 5:30 on the dial. if you put the red lead on the side with the stripe and the black on the other, you should get no reading. If you reverse them, you should see something between like 0.3V and 1.2V, depending on the diode. All should probably measure the same. Since they're 'in circuit', there could be something else on the board that messes with the readings, but they should still probably be the same. You can't really test parts without desoldering all but one leg, but usually it's fine to do it in circuit

#3 4 years ago
Quoted from zacaj:

Those are diodes. You want the diode/sound setting/ at about 5:30 on the dial. if you put the red lead on the side with the stripe and the black on the other, you should get no reading. If you reverse them, you should see something between like 0.3V and 1.2V, depending on the diode. All should probably measure the same. Since they're 'in circuit', there could be something else on the board that messes with the readings, but they should still probably be the same. You can't really test parts without desoldering all but one leg, but usually it's fine to do it in circuit

Perfect! They all read between 560 and 600 on the 5:30 tone mark so I know its not that. Thanks!

#4 4 years ago

You bump that board and bad things happen.... check for cold solder joints on all those wire connections... might be your issue. Good luck!

#5 4 years ago
Quoted from metalkatt:

You bump that board and bad things happen.... check for cold
solder joints on all those wire connections... might be your issue.
Good luck!

I would also maybe start a better thread with the specific issue. I don't mean this in a mean way, but if you don't know how to use a multimeter and don't know what a diode is called, how did you diagnose whatever your issue is down to those components? You will likely get better and quicker advice with more detail on the issue.

#6 4 years ago

yeah description of what game, what its doing or not doing, and which board and which connection you bump would let us lead you to the right fix.

#7 4 years ago
Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:

All of these electronic components "don't know what they are called" should be identical based off of their markings.

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