Rybow
Well-known member
Hey all,
I am troubleshooting a circuit right now, and one of the things I am doing is replacing my 1/4 watt resistors with 1/2 watt ones. Anyways, I was checking the values of my replacements and one came up different. It was supposed to be an 8.2K, and my meter was reading 5.6K. I thought I'd put the wrong one in, so I checked the colour code against another 8.2K, and it was the same. Thinking it was bad, I replaced it with one that I knew was good, and the same thing happened. The reading also took awhile to settle on the reading of 5.6K.
I measured with the probes as close to the resistor as possible. Does this point to another issue in the circuit? Should I be focusing attention on other components that are connected to this resistor?
Also my 1M resistors don't measure properly unless my meter is set to 200M range. When in 2M range, it measures 0.014. They measure fine when not in the circuit.
Thanks in advance!
I am troubleshooting a circuit right now, and one of the things I am doing is replacing my 1/4 watt resistors with 1/2 watt ones. Anyways, I was checking the values of my replacements and one came up different. It was supposed to be an 8.2K, and my meter was reading 5.6K. I thought I'd put the wrong one in, so I checked the colour code against another 8.2K, and it was the same. Thinking it was bad, I replaced it with one that I knew was good, and the same thing happened. The reading also took awhile to settle on the reading of 5.6K.
I measured with the probes as close to the resistor as possible. Does this point to another issue in the circuit? Should I be focusing attention on other components that are connected to this resistor?
Also my 1M resistors don't measure properly unless my meter is set to 200M range. When in 2M range, it measures 0.014. They measure fine when not in the circuit.
Thanks in advance!