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Originally Posted by 3dplane
You are right I did not mention that it does not matter which post you disconnect and it does not matter what lead you put where!
All it is going to do is display the current flow as negative if it is backwards. It will be the same amount as forward.
As far as hookup,you are making a connection between your disconnected battery post and the disconnected battery cable with your meter leads.
One lead touches the 'naked' batt post,the other lead touches the disconnected battery cable.
You are inserting the meter inline essentially reconnecting the battery through the the meter!
Your meter: move the red lead over to the hole that says 10 A.
Set the dial to the 10 A setting to start with.
If the lowest reading that it can display here is 0.1 A, that would be 100 mA (milli Amps) and if that is what you read,(too much draw) then you need to switch to read down to milli amps.
I don't know your meter but it looks like you would put the red lead back to the whole where it is on your picture and change the dial to be in the milli amps range say 200m setting in the DCA section surrounded by a green line.
On my fluke it auto ranges so it can display from 1mA to 10 A without having to touch anything.
BTW it seems your scooter only charging at idle! Not good!
Is the headlight on when it is running?
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Wanted to tell you the reading I am getting in the 10A position on my VOM is on connection 0.09 then reduces to a constant 0.01. I will test the 200m thing next but wanted to mention this. Is this high? Any clue?