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Re: Troubleshooting motor controllers

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis View Post
If not, you can try using a multimeter set to AC Voltage.
Some DVM's use half-wave rectification for AC, and if you have the DVM leads connected the wrong way you'll read zero volts. If you use DC, you'll read voltage regardless of polarity.