John G. Hasler said: (quoted from post at 05:07:47 08/23/12) > And why would that be?
Because it is designed to carry the entire charging current the ammeter has very little resistance. This means that if you connect it across the battery an extremely large current will flow through it, much larger than it was designed for. This is likely to melt that bit of aluminumand/or do other damage.[/quote:92144724a0]
I touched it to the battery I didn't hook it to the battery and let it there. The needle never moved. It never melted anything.
[quote:92144724a0]You connected one terminal of the ammeter directly to the battery negative post and the other directly to the positive? If the meter wasn"t fried before it is now.
I think touching it to the battery momentarily was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
This post was edited by realolman at 13:36:03 08/23/12.
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