I see people are advising doing the dead short current test with a multimeter, which to the best of my knowledge is likely to fry the meter or at least blow the fuse.
Is it really standard practice to measure solar panel output by connecting a multimeter across the output of the solar panel?
Isn't the correct way to do this is to put the meter in series with a load, for example around a 3 ohm 100 watt resistor for testing current output on a 100 watt solar panel.
Or am I misinformed?
Is it really standard practice to measure solar panel output by connecting a multimeter across the output of the solar panel?
Isn't the correct way to do this is to put the meter in series with a load, for example around a 3 ohm 100 watt resistor for testing current output on a 100 watt solar panel.
Or am I misinformed?