Hi, whilst testing the current draw of a small circuit I have put together with my multimeter I have come across something that is confusing me.
My circuit is powered by 2 AA battery's so obviously there is not that much current available to begin with but just to be safe I firstly connected up my multimeter using the 10amp jack and it read about 0.480A.
Then I gave it a try on the mA jack but this time it read out about 340mA.
So my question is which reading is more likely to be the correct one? and does anyone know why my multimeter is doing this. I have not been measuring anything over the meters limits btw.
Thanks!
My circuit is powered by 2 AA battery's so obviously there is not that much current available to begin with but just to be safe I firstly connected up my multimeter using the 10amp jack and it read about 0.480A.
Then I gave it a try on the mA jack but this time it read out about 340mA.
So my question is which reading is more likely to be the correct one? and does anyone know why my multimeter is doing this. I have not been measuring anything over the meters limits btw.
Thanks!