Hi, and yeah, I know the term "passive circuit" is so general the answer is going to be yes. I'm just thinking about some passive circuit that has capacitors or coils, that could be charged even if the circuit is disconnected, and you could short something by error and damage it.
What I really mean with a "passive circuit" is that it's not charged at all, capacitors and everything is "dead", no energy stored. Could you damage some components by simply the energy you give with the multimeter?
Somewhere, a few years ago, I read that, for example, you shouldn't measure the resistance of a speaker coil, specially in small headphones, because you could damage it. I've been doing that many years, hahaha, to check if headphones are balanced, to check if they are broken, to check I repaired them correctly... but I am actually curious about if that's a myth or if there are components that are so sensitive you could damage with a multimeter.
What I really mean with a "passive circuit" is that it's not charged at all, capacitors and everything is "dead", no energy stored. Could you damage some components by simply the energy you give with the multimeter?
Somewhere, a few years ago, I read that, for example, you shouldn't measure the resistance of a speaker coil, specially in small headphones, because you could damage it. I've been doing that many years, hahaha, to check if headphones are balanced, to check if they are broken, to check I repaired them correctly... but I am actually curious about if that's a myth or if there are components that are so sensitive you could damage with a multimeter.