Quick electrical question.

[Major Fallout]

Help I'm not very good with all this electrickery. My knowledge is stuck at trembler coils.

Can one of you point me to Meg ohms please.

[Morningside]

2000 k

What are you checking?

[miniman]

Stick it on 2000k on the left, in yellow.

[Major Fallout]

Thank you!

I'm checking a coil on my Mx5.

[Faust66]

Quick question: would the 20v setting also be ok for checking a coil/battery?

[Garvin]

Yes for battery, yes for low tension side of coil (where the thin wires connect).

[anonymous-user]

Why do you want MOhm to check a coil?? (most coils on a 12v system will have resistances between approx 0.5ohm (ign coil) and 50Ohm (std relay)) ??

[FranKinFezza]

Max_Torque said:

Why do you want MOhm to check a coil?? (most coils on a 12v system will have resistances between approx 0.5ohm (ign coil) and 50Ohm (std relay)) ??

This ^ indeed if you have a coil reading in the meg ohms its probably stuffed
on you meter the K is the multiplier in thousands

ETA so the 20K its set at in the picture is the up to 20,000 ohm setting

[Major Fallout]

I'm only following orders. Well a page on the net.

You're talking to someone that never deals with this side of engineering at work, unless it's a road/track side fix.
In my day to day I could get just as much work done with a bit of wire a battery and a bulb. But the multi meter makes me look like I know what I'm doing, and also makes a good chock.

Give me oily bits any day.

[Major Fallout]

That glass shattering moment after hours of chasing a misfire when you spot a lollipop stick poking out of the wiring loom, and a bulge made with half a mile of tape.