When you need a multimeter for testing electrical equipment around the home, it's vital to know what all those symbols around the dial mean.

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Learn how to test a transformer: insulation resistance, TTR, winding resistance, polarity, continuity, and dielectric checks.

Before we go forward and run some of the tests that we are going to see hereinafter, let us check a few of the symptoms to understand if those tests are worth doing. We have mentioned some symptoms ...

[Piffpaffpoltrie] had a problem. They found the InLine VA40R to be a perfectly usable multimeter, except for a couple of flaws. Most glaring among these were the tiny sockets for the test probes.