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Home Electronic Equipments Multitester VOM Parts and Functions of Multitester or Voltage Ohm Meter
Parts and Functions of Multitester
or Voltage Ohm Meter
 Arnel Cartoneros  7/19/2013 09:26:00 AM  Electronic Equipments , Multitester , VOM

The VOM or Voltage Ohm meter or commonly called as Multitester is used by the technicians or enthusiasts both
Electronic or computer technician. This equipment is used to measure both the voltage AC and DC voltages,
Resistance, and current. Remember that you will deal with the high voltage in using this equipment. So therefore
you need to learn more about how to use this and learn first the parts and functions including the safety precautions.

1. Know what to be measure- remember that before you perform measurement of a voltage or a device
you should acquaint yourself what type of current your dealing with. Is this high voltage or not, example: the wall
outlet electricity or the convenience outlet or CO that has a standard wall outlet electricity of 220 VAC minimum.
2. Know the polarity- if we should measure a line of voltages or current we must
understand that a Direct Current (DC) have a two channel, the positive and negative. To avoid an
incident, we must always avoid the technician error in considering the trial and errors.
3. Do not hold the test rod- the test rod is the metal tip of the test probe, consider always the voltage and
electronic component as high voltage. So that you will avoid the accident of electrical shock and damage of the units
you repair.
THE BASIC PARTS OF THE VOM (Multitester)

Remember that there are different type of the analog multitester through the manufacturer, the unit I’ve use is the
Sanwa YX360 TRF and the Sunwa YX360 TRD.
1. The Dial or the Infinity knob- this is the zero collector whenever you calibrate, the
beginning as 0 voltages both the AC and DC measurement. Use your flat screw driver to set this
knob to calibrate the 0 voltages of your tester. The name alone as Infinity knob because 0 voltage
region of the tester is the infinity region of the resistance. Because the principle of the Multitester
is “The higher the measurement of the voltage, the lower the resistance."
2. Zero Adjustment or the Zero Ohms collector knob- this use to calibrate the tester whenever
you wanted to measure the resistance. To assure that the tester calibrated to zero Ohms, just follow this procedure.
Take the two metal tip of the test probe of the VOM connected
Then look at the meter scale of the tester, notice the needle or the pointer if it takes to the zero ohms situated right of
the meter scale. If the needle didn't take to the zero ohms just rolled the knob clockwise until the middle position in
the zero ohms.
3. The pointer or needle- use to point or read the measurement using the meter scale base
of the range and settings you prepared during the test of a device or line of a voltage.
4. Meter scales- this is the basis of the measurement where the graduation, bar drawn in the
body, commonly the resistance or ohms scale have a measurement from 0-2k ohms depend of the
range and settings. And the voltage both AC and DC from 0-250,50, 10 and it depends on the
range and settings you sited.
5. Range selector knob- this part of the tester located center down of the body of the VOM
is used to select the range and settings of the VOM the (AC and DC, Resistance, and
the Amperage). Be sure to set this if ever you wanted to measure the voltage. If you forgot to sit
this part, and the settings are the resistance, then you measure the voltage, this will cause blown
off your VOM and may possibly cause damage of your VOM.
6. Range and settings- position in the whole corner of the range selector knows. Written
here the voltages AC and DC, Resistance or ohms, and the amperage ranges. So if you wanted to
measure be sure to know what you wanted to measure so that you can sit your settings, example
Voltage AC 220 Volts.
7. Test probes- there are two test probes of the VOM, the black is the negative (-) and the
red is the positive (-). If ever you wanted to measure a voltage, example DC just knows the
polarity or the positive and negative. Then connect the test probe red to the positive line of the
circuit and the black probe to the negative or the ground (GND) of the circuit or of the dry cells.

TIPS!

 If you want a good performance and to assure an exact result use a non-pirated or original VOM.
 Buying original VOM, you can assure of your safety, because electricity is very dangerous to us and may
can kill.
 Be sure to calibrate first the VOM before to test any voltages higher or not.
 Always off VOM after use to assure the life span of the VOM battery.
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Arnel is a Blog creator and writer, A founder and publisher of www.combinebasic.com and www.nuggetro.info.

Part time Computer Instructor, Computer And Electronic Technician, And performing job

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9 comments:
1.
ANONYMOUSFEBRUARY 28, 2016 AT 11:33 PM
Terrible grammar! But helpful. Thanks!
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ARNEL CARTONEROSFEBRUARY 29, 2016 AT 5:33 AM
We do our best to edit the contents of this site, thank you for your visits
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ZONIVJULY 12, 2016 AT 12:57 PM
Hello, very nice post and informative indeed. The parts belong to a multimeter is perfectly described and
showed.Thanks for the post. Really helpful for the learners.
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4.
ARNEL CARTONEROSJULY 13, 2016 AT 5:38 AM
Thank you Zoniv for your visit here, I hope you can share also your knowledge here.
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ANONYMOUSAUGUST 10, 2016 AT 12:27 AM
It's helpful, indeed even for engineering students like me! Please do check some grammatical errors and some
misspelled words like "niddle". It doesn't have to be perfect, though because it's already great. Thank you, Sir Arnel.
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NICHE RELATEDSEPTEMBER 26, 2016 AT 8:03 AM
Analog multimeters use a micro ammeter which has a pointer moving along a scale of collaborated
measurements. The Multimeter Guide
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ARNEL CARTONEROSSEPTEMBER 27, 2016 AT 6:26 AM
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HADON HALMAY 25, 2017 AT 8:00 AM
All Digital Multimeter will test for voltage, current and resistance. These are the three functions you will use most
when trying to diagnose a problem. Multimeter
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ARNEL CARTONEROSSEPTEMBER 22, 2018 AT 11:15 PM
Thanks nice, perfect comment. You can measure also amperage and both ACV and DCV voltages. Thanks for visits
here.
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