Oh, sorry about that. I read somewhere on an advert that they couldn't.
Correct testing of small batteries with a multi-meter.
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O.K. Thank you both for that. I'm learning as time goes by !
Time to wrap this up now probably. I'm either going for the BT-168D or the BT-168PRO but I can't find out what the difference is. Can anyone tell me that please ? In any event, thank you all for the help that you have given me. I have learned a lot. The problem at my age is remembering it all !!!
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If the battery still shows near its rated voltage under load, it’s usually healthy, so I clip a small resistor across the probes to see how it behaves under a bit of stress. For tiny coin cells, I’ve compared drop-off patterns using an lr1130 battery equivalent chart, which helped me spot weak ones before they caused random device glitches.
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