[sander]

Hi all,

Going to start delving into the car's electricals soon, so I'm doing a crash course with a new digital multimeter. Decided to get a cheap one to learn the basics on before looking for something better, but I may be paying for my thriftiness...

So I did a little tutorial and the DMM was reading voltage, amps, and ohms just fine. But somewhere along the line something seemed to happen to the Ohmmeter.

And now anytime it's in ohmmeter mode, it basically goes into a "countdown" and the numbers just decrease steadily and even go into negative numbers.

This even happens when I simply touch the two leads together - which should be a calibration test for resistance, correct? That should just read zero (or close to it).

This DMM doesn't have any kind of calibration for ohms (as far as I can see). So is this one really just fried as far as its ohmmeter, or is there something I'm missing here...?

Thanks!