IIRC my Fluke will switch to ohms when it senses resistance while in continuity setting.
Nice feature.
Sorry for not finishing thread... I need to subscribe to some of my obscure threads as I forget to check them sometimes.
This was for my general understanding and future reference info for clarity when doing checks diagnostics etc so I don't do a similar mistake again.
Over the summer I was taking a motor controls class and chased a ghost (or what I thought was a problem but wasn't) for 45 minutes. I had finished my lab and was helping someone else. I put my meter up and was using thiers. I did not understanding why a Fluke meter beeped when I was checking "continuity" from X1 of control transformer to A1 on motor starter coil even though I had not pushed the start button and stop button did not stop beep either. My craftsman meter won't beep for this test usually until I push start and quits when I push stop.
This was on part of control circuit NC stop, NO start, paralleled with memory latch to motor starter. Also had a control relay and light and another stop and start station. Again my craftsman won't beep until I push start on similar tests. Thier circuit did not work so I shut it down and started probing. I found a few problems. But before rehooking power I wanted to check overall function. But the Fluke beeped continuity X1 to A1. And I thought they had another miswire issue so I probed and tested for 45 minutes not finding anything else. They did have several issues and fixed them early but this beeping worried me as the wiring was a jumble and I did not want to rehook power until I knew it was correct.
My craftsman meter quits beeping after something around 60 ish ohms iirc. The fluke would beep upwards of 100 ohms. What was happening was fluke was reading across A1-A2 then through 95-96 overloads to X2 back through control step down transformer coil back across from X2 to X1 a continuous path of 100 ish? ohms through coils ( can't remember the value) from x1 to a1 "backwards" not through the stop start buttons. And I mistakenly thought their stop/start buttons were not working correctly or a terminal or relay was miswired. Again My meter would not beep and it was easy for me to test my circuits start/stop button functions with meter probes tied from x1 on transformer to A1 motor starter.
Live and learn .... Continuity beep / ohm range means different things to different meters and different situations/circuits. And it helped me see clearer the loop of current on the control transformer loop.
Another situation was I picked up a non marked motor starter and was probing for terminals A1 - A2 and the my meter was on continuity beep but it did not beep on what should have been the coil this baffled me somewhat as I thought the coil should have beeped since it was just one small coil.
