THE BEST Multimeter tutorial (HD)
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- čas přidán 17. 03. 2010
- What to look for in a multimeter and how to use a multimeter to measure voltage, current, resistance and continuity.
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This video is an old gem! Very clear and concise. 2010 = no intro, no background music, less than 10 minutes, no beg for subscription, likes, notification bell reminder, no merch plug, and no social media shout outs. That being said, I could really use a hoodie, with a volt meter on it, with a silly pun attached.
Very nostalgic. I miss these kind of videos
Thing of beauty
Totally, the most clearly introduction of multimeter for beginners...Like me 👍😀👍
I get no ad, s, CZcams vanced 😂
RadioShack and Sears lol
This is by far one of the best CZcams tutorials I've seen...the guy has a great voice, crystal clear, no swearing or cheap language, he knows what he's talking about, picture quality is top notch, first class well done....thanks for a refresher. I'm a retired AV contractor with over 60 years under my belt...and experience with all kinds of vom's, analogue-digital and more. This guy is good! Thanx for posting it!
Lapokin Thank you!
+Lapokin agree
+Lapokin No Beeps for You ! lol
+Lapokin Put a ring on it.
Agreed! This helped me a lot. Keep up the good work!
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That meter is only 33 bucks. Great video!
hands down one of the best tutorials on multitmeter use . To the point discription in a very short video. good job my friend you have done a service for humanity.
+ajaz aslam Yay thank you
True.
just googled how to connect a diode and found this dude..awesome! i guess i'm learning electronics now..
Misa if that is not purely a joke you will be amazed how fast you can learn. it happened to me!
try arduino for me when i wanted to understand how it all works it pulled everything together.
Who is watching this video in 2024
Your mother 😏
I'm watching 😎
That is a good beginning tutorial for users of multimeters. I have an old multimeter with the harder to read display, and two newer types with the digital readings. They all work fine, but one is much better than the others and more functions and is built to resist drops better also. Thanks so much for those like myself who have forgotten much of what I learned since I don't do much of the measuring other than mainly batteries voltage.
Undoubtedly, one of of the best tutorials online. Sharp and accurate. Thanks for sharing.
Please never, ever remove this video. It's THAT good. Thanks!
I wish more how-to videos were this concise, informative, and easy-to-understand. Thanks.
I just want to thank all the people here on You Tube for helping me with all the things I have fix.Thank god for you tube.
Thank you so much for a simple clear and concise tutorial. It covered everything i was looking for without complicating it for me.
Great tutorial - not a single second wasted - thank you!
Excellent. Perfect voice for instruction.
Lawl NO BEEPS FOR YOU!! (Throws board on ground)
hahahhaha he throws it hahahha
darude - sandstorm
that shocked me a little bit xD
Holy shit that was funny. I spilled my juice on myself, now I have to change my shirt.
@@adamsmith5913 hahaha
Thank you so much for being straightforward and easy to understand. I haven't used on of these in about 15 years so I needed that refresher.
Explains concepts more clearly than 95% of my electrical engineering profs. Two thumbs up.
+afrotechmods what a great video for multi-meters. This is a good reference guide for new users. Thanks for uploading.
Hands down, one of the top two clearest and most informative videos on the purchase and basic use of a multimeter.
For about six years I was a subscriber to a different electronics channel and for the most part got a lot of entertainment from watching it, although surprizingly very little education. However the guy's attitude towards expensive equipment finally went too far for me. I am now a 'Big Clive' subscriber and your channel also. Critically you both give basically the same advice--the best multimeter is the one you can afford to buy.
I look forward to watching the rest of your videos.
Again and again, want to say thanks to the people who work at youtube . And
people helpers who help educational videos like these .
im an electrician and i really approve this video. What a good job to explain the basics. Many people have a hard time doing so
This makes me want to buy and play around with a multimeter
This makes me want to learn what I can about electronics
This is a good video.
this dude's channel is awesome though
PattyMMelt this makes me got the idea that you are a robot
Robert Kattner if the only way for u to gain knowledge is 2 years of collage ur fukd lol...
Excellent video. Out of all the tutorials that I've watched this is by far the most comprehensive. The explanations were simple and to the point with great examples. Thanks, you really helped me out a lot.
There's that quote, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough". This guy clearly knows his stuff well, as he can explain what takes others twenty minutes in about 5 and, most importantly, I come away having learnt even more than I set out to. Rathe than just talk around something, he has that rare ability to impart knowledge -- it's like I've received a 'knowledge transfusion', if you will.
I appreciate this video so much with it's clear and concise explanation. I'm an AMT student and it just seems like the teachers already expect you to know how a multimeter works without ever explaining it first-hand.
''No beeps for you!''
Going through my electrical classes for my diesel mechanic degree. It's kicking my ass. I obviously didn't learn jack when I was doing those two years of electronics in high school...
Great video! Your tutorial on using multimeters, including continuity, was incredibly helpful for a beginner like me. Thanks to your clear explanations and practical demonstrations, I now feel much more confident in measuring voltage, current, resistance, and checking continuity. Your passion for teaching really shines through, making the whole learning process enjoyable. I'm looking forward to exploring more of your content. Keep up the fantastic work!
Glad it helped!
I have owned a multi-meter for years (gifted to me) but never learned how to use it. A few DIY project are now tempting me to pull it out. Thanks for this information on how it works.
Awesome video! Explains a lot of the aspects of my multimeter that I didn't even know could do. I use my multimeter almost on a daily basis for different aspects like auto repair and electronic repair. Now I can do even more.
Best Tutorial Ever Thank You Friend
Sherif Aliti no u
Lots of vids up on here about this. THIS is the best one.
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LOVE the video! I too just couldn't sit through the 30+ minute videos. I think you pretty much hit on everything I'll ever use mine for (at least as a beginner in hobby electronics and some around-the-house repairs). Thanks man, for a perfect vid!
so brief and yet packed with so much information, i wish you could continue doing more videos on multimeters
Great tutorial - no pack drill - no long preamble - just straight and concise informative info. Bravo! (And of course thumbs up).
Really helpful!
Thanks bud!
Thanks so much for making this Multimeter Tutorial, I've had one floating around in my junk draw for years (got it at a garage sale) and didn't know how to use it. Now, thanks to you....I'm an expert. Okay, not an expert but I can check my batteries and wall outlets. Thanks again!
This is one of the best tutorial on youtube, I have ever watched. Thank you for posting this VDO, really helps and very useful.
"No beeps for you!" *circuit board flies away*
Just a note of caution: Multimeters have a finite amount of amps you can send through them when testing current, usually written on the front. If you exceed this you will blow a fuse and possibly brick your multimeter
Smart people already know that. Stupid people need to stay away from meters. Flukes have fast blow fuses they even come with a spare. I've never blown one. They also have never exceed voltage input.
Other video's in youtube about multimeter's are somewhat complicated.
Afrotechmods Your video is by far the simple and greatest.
I hope you live long
by far the best video on youtube explaining multimeter use
Wonderful tutorial!!! My Dad was an electronics man, and after he passed away he left me with dozens of "strange" and new meters and tester. I'm just trying to learn the basics of how to use them! Thankx.
No sense hating on analog multimeters, believe it or not there are still things that they are better at like changing values, so it's good to keep one around.
Or you already have one and you don’t like to spend money
@@keepermovin5906 Analog are handy for stray voltage. Higher end digital with low impedance (LoZ) can detect it to but they're usually more than what most people will pay
One of the best tutorials on the web - A model for others to follow when trying to make tutorials. Thank you
Straight to the point, good advice and well articulated.
Well done.
Barely knew how to use a multimeter
after 4:35 i felt like a genius :D
LOL at 3:27 ! Sorta like the Soup Nazi in Seinfeld. Really, too funny..."no beeps for you!" Thanks for the video.
One of the most informative four and a half minutes of video one could watch.
Finally, a quick and informative tutorial that hits its target!
0:43 'not that old school analog crap' totally caught me off guard
Somehow when I was a kid, my dad managed to do just fine with the old school analog crap though.
love how he threw that circuit board
lol me too. No beeps for you!
he got many,no need to worry
Came here looking for this comment
Such great and concise video. I love it. Had trouble using a multi-meter, this genius made it simple for me. Going for my O's & P's today,
Good job!
Thank you - I have a electric issues on my vintage scooter and needed a good 101 on how to use a multimeter. Much appreciated. Now off to buy one...
"No Beeps for YOU"! Informal and with just the right amount of humor!
I feel the video should have mentioned the importance of getting a multimeter with fuses on the current jacks. Many (most) cheap multimeters forgo fuses for the current measurements, which may result in damage to the meter if you're not careful. And under higher loads, it could be dangerous to you (explosive or dramatic amounts of fire coming from the meter).
Spending $20 more to get into the fused meter range is worth every cent. Don't put safety under cost.
this video lives upto its name. really loved this one
Thank you for this tutorial. I've had a multimeter for a few years and never really known how to use it. I sort of guess what I need to check and poke whatever I'm checking. Guess I'm lucky I haven't blown a fuse the few times I've used it. This video is really helpful for me starting to understand what I should be doing.
those old school crap meters are perfect for checking voltage spikes
haha your a funny guy thats what makes this the best haha
"should have the digital display not that old analog crap"
Prosto, zwięźle i na temat. The Best! Greeting from Poland.
This guy is clear and knows his subject. Not like some of the videos you get on CZcams.
NO BEEP FOR YOU! COME BACK ONE YEAR!!!
That "old school analogue crap", as you so eloquently describe it, is still used by professionals because it has distinct advantages over digital versions, not the least of which is when you are dealing with changing voltages or currents. Watching a digital readout continuously changing is a real pain in the proverbial, thus digital meters are better suited to steady-state measurements. It is also easier to check semiconductors such as diodes, transistors, mosfets and the like with an analogue meter. With some digital meters, you cannot check these devices at ALL. Thus, in any half-decent electronics lab, you will both types.
I am not with or against. But i bought a new DMM named UNI-T UT61C and it has a digital baragraph. But i aint sure about the things that i cant measure...
Wow, man. This was fantastic. Short, sweet, to the point and super informative. Many thanks.
Still a great tutorial after all these years. Thanks.
lol..."old school analog crap" and "No beeps for you" XD
Please find me a cheep GHz digital multimeter, analogs are much better for that.
Learned more in 4 and a half minutes than I did in 6 months at a skills college.
true
learned this in first 10 minutes of lab, you should've gone to a better college
Powdered toast man??? My childhood hero like lektricity too???
What was your college?
Goes to show that you don't need bells and whistles for a good, thorough instructional video. 2 thumbs up and 2 toes. Well done!
I love how you blow stuff up in your videos, answers my question "What if"
Multi meters are really best for preventing your ass from getting the crap shocked out of it! When I first started replacing electric pool pump motors ,I learned the hard way! Sometimes with wet ,bare feet ,Ive been shot across a few backyards! Some of the pumps ,even after manually shutting off the time clocks,still had hot 220- V ,60 amp juice,due to the heat pump using time clock over-ride to keep the pool at desired temp,even when the time-clock had the pump off ,like at night! Got a multi meter after a few good jolts.Man just thinking about that feeling gives me the willies....
yeah man i know the feeling been blown off a few walls myself hehe
Why wouldn't you just shut down the main......DUH
cause sometimes you need to take voltage measurements and if you shut the mains down you cant take voltage measurements
DUH !!
Well,I work in a tropical paradise with a lot of snowbirds,and pro golfers ,and many times you would get authorization to pull a motor,when homeowners were in another state or out ,and no access to garage to get to the panel,and you just had to get the job done. DUH.
I used my multimeter before watching this video and I'm pretty sure I blew a fuse.
You have a voice of an experienced professor.
Great job explaining how to use something most people thing they 'know' how to use, but 'do not'.
More videos please (Subscribed...and liked).
Thank you so much, I mean it. My computer idiots was telling me there was a problem with continuity......and i proved there wasn't. Really helpful and easy to follow.
A friend just got a free multi meter from Harbor Freight but doesn't have a clue how to use one
HA! I used a coupon the other day for the .79 cent 4 piece funnels and got the free multi meter as well, epic!
$3 funnels and a $7 multi meter for .86 cents out the door, WOHOO!!!
I tried the wall outlet thing and I heard a pop and my multimeter was smoking
What multimeter were you using? Did you have the cables plugged in to measure volts, not amps?
I prob had it on amps I was plugging the red wire to the different inputs, it was a cheap Home Depot multimeter anyway, but it was really odd I have never see. That happen
Yeah the amps vs volts configuration is REALLY important please don't make that mistake again! Also beware of multimeters that seem too cheap to be true.
man i just mess up like you,,its happen few minutes ago before i watch afrotechmods
i plug the com with red wire and...boom my house go blackout #yoloo xD
but lucky my multimeter didn't blow ;v
me too done the same mistake n my multimeter blewed
anywayz i bot a new 1 @ abt 180inr ($3)
cheap though, working fine from couple months
:-D
Thanks for the video, man. I learned a lot in a short time without a lot of academic posturing.
Wow, wow and wow! The most straight to the point video on youtube that I have seen in a very long time!! Thank you, thank you and one extra thanks for good measure!!!!!!!
I have an analog multimeter that me and my father still use
Socrates they are useful
Never discharge a capacitor with your multimeter.
What's the right way ?
This Afrotechmods is greaaaat! I love how he does the videos to be so much fun and ( funny).
Thank you this tutorial was so easy to follow. Best one I've seen yet.
I prefer analog display.. expecially when the result it constantly changing. Nothing beats seeing a needle moving to know exactly what is going on. Digital is good for things like DC sure, but to see a moving circuit, the moving needle lets you see what is going on in real time.. Everything has its purpose in other words. Saying that analog meters sux is stupid thing to say.
"Nothing beats seeing a needle moving to know exactly what is going on"
My oscilloscope disagrees...
Stan Skaggs I am agree with you, I got one digital multimeter and 3 analog.
BlObMiStReSs that is true.. but even the scope has its purposes and functions. Not everyone can afford an oscilloscope though too.
I have to appoligize too for saying the comment was "stupid".. that was not very nice of me.. sorry and I apologize..
OK thumbs up for you aaloge crab digital crab he means.
BlObMiStReSs "
wow i just got smarter in less than 5 minutes compare my school 6 moths
+GAR A public school isn't designed to make people smarter, it is there to indoctrinate "good citizens".
i only smart the things i love to do, like I love cars so i try to learn about cars cause i love them, and I also love motorcycle so i try to learn how it works and how to fix it, i can't be a doctor by the time i open books i be sleeping, books makes me sleep faster than being knock out on the face. believe me i was in medical field shool and realized its not for me to much reading and by the time i open books start yawning seriously, so right now I am at mechanich school every time I open a mechanic book it just excite me and its fascinating
-. +GAR A -
@@garysmart1 Hi mate, try Circuit Wizard if you are into electronics.
By FAR, the best tutorials on the internet
Really one of the best tutorials I have seen in CZcams...
Old skool analog crap. Lolz
Half way through this tutorial and already the best so far!!! 💯👍💯
Usually am apprehensive about 'best' videos. But i gotta say this was concise and well presented. Cheers mate!
Great video straight to the point...no grandstanding just the facts. I have a short attention span, thanks Afrotechmods.
You created a very useful, easy to understand, video. Congratulations. In a future work, you might want to consider explaining how to corroborate, using the digital multimeter, the layout of a transistor -which terminal is which.
That "old school analog crap" that you mentioned in your video is still in use, for a fair reason, in most high-end development electronics labs.
Although more convenient for most applications, you might know that the digital phase in a DMM is a fixed sampling of an analog quantity -very well represented, by the way-; therefore, strictly speaking, some values are superimposed to complete a reading. That is not the case with an analog device: the D'arsonval mechanism inside will get excited with all the values I mentioned. It gives an _exact_ reading.
Regards.
Good simple tutorial. Basic but clear. Best of the bunch so far. every other I've seen so far had glaring errors. One thing needs adding is to point out that the continuity beep function doesn't just work on a short circuit but will often (meter dependent) still sound with a resistance, sometimes upto 1kOhm! I've seen many ships engineers make bad diagnoses assuming continuity means "good"
Literally the only Basic Tutorial you will ever need. Thanks Man
Great tutorial!! My first ever voltmeter should be here later today. Can't wait to try it with your lesson!
This is the best tutorial on how to use a multimeter that I've seen so far I came here because I want to learn how to check for electrical faults on my 1991 Celica thanks allot Afrotechmods.
I needed to use a complex multimeter with multiple ports to test some voltages and this video was perfect, thank you
by far the best tutorial I've ever watched
I can't believe that this 9 year old video is still much better than the videos made nowadays, I understood whatever you said you are also fun to watch! Subbing to you right away!
Short. Informative. Easy to comprehend. Now my fear of multimeters and electrical troubleshooting for a beginner is on a clear path. Thanks for posting!
Bon travail, this is probably the best multimeter tutorial I've seen all day! Great job! 😀
thank you, this video didn't directly address my problem, but it helped me to figure it out on my own, which is even better! I would recomend this video to anyone who needs help figuring out a multimeter
What a great no-nonsense tutorial. I like those.