YO just watched your Mutlimeter where you compared the two, very infmorative, used to be an Electrial apprentice but I cant remember how to mesausre amps... like say for my iPhone charge... but your demonstration with the toaster was brilliant. Couple questions: yo how did you connect it for current? saw you plugged the black on into the outlet, but what did you stick in the positive side (red) side? that led to the black clips you clipped to the prong on the toaster outlet? it looks like it was a screw driver with a clamp on it. Meaning you have a wire with clamps on each end, one to the lead into the power source an on clicped on to the prong on the plug! PLEASE ANSSWER. ME BRO
Dan, think of measuring amps like counting atoms. To count each one, your measuring tool needs to be connected in such a way to the circuit so that each atom passes through it, so in this case it must be part of the circuit - just like a wire is. The multimeter can "count" how many atoms pass through itself if its connected in this fashion.
