Hi everyone. My first post (sorry if I’m posting it in the wrong place!)
So I’m trying to learn a bit about electronics. I was given a cheap multimeter ages ago and today decide to test it. I have some old AA batteries and I thought I would use the multimeter to test the voltage. When I tested them however they all showed as .001 volts. Thinking they were all now pretty dead I went and tested two different AA batteries but got the same result. Am I doing something wrong? I have the black prob plugged in com, the red probe in VmA and the dial set to 20V (the V one with two lines not the V with one line). All the videos on youtube suggest this is right. Have I done something really obviously dumb? No icon has come up saying the battery is low (I checked the instruction manual to be sure). Any thoughts would be appreciated!