That obviously depends upon what you understand by this wretched word 'continuity', which has come to often be misused (at least, per up upbringing) in the world of electricians.
I have edited my post to remove the confusion.
Thank you, John. I knew what I meant as well.
but measuring resistance may need a bit more explaining, he has confirmed he has a multimeter and im sure if he knew how to measure resistance he would have sorted the issue by now.I personally think Deadshort meant plain old continuity rather than measuring resistance, no disrespect to Terry
That was essentially my point - that when electricians talk about 'continuity' these days, they usually are not usually referring to "plain old continuity" - but, rather, are looking for a resistance measurement to write down on their form
The 'beep' of many a multimeter obviously is essentially 'old fashioned continuity', and I think the threshold of most meters is such that it would not beep if there were a heater element in the circuit.That's probably true.
Fair enough - but I personally didn't think there was any confusion!
I thought that you probably didThank you, John. I knew what I meant as well.
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