High Resistance

[Spoon]

I was checking some wiring and the next step was to check for High resistance, open or short. I disconnected the circuit and was measuring resist. from one end of the wire to the other, this wire also had a connection in the middle. My reading was .2 ohms. is that too high? What is too much? 1 ohm?

Thanks.

[19Cutlass94]

What were you trying to measure?

[Spoon]

I'm tring to see if theres high resistance in a wire.

[19Cutlass94]

Well it will depend on what your trying to measure. All wires dont have the same resistance ( The same gauge might ) But what are you trying to measure that the wire goes to? Im not quite understand this. What circuit? What part on the car?

 

Maybe its just me but

[94CutlassSLCoupe]

0.2 ohms is hardly anything

[Spoon]

0.2 ohms is hardly anything

 

whats too much?

[NeonKnight]

what are you measuring.. depending on what you are measuring would tell us how to calculate how much resistance is bad...

[Spoon]

I'm measuring a wire from the rear tail light to the main harness connector under the column.

[joberlee]

tail light problems = check your ground connections in the sockets. the sockets on gm stuff are known to go bad. What is the light doing?

[GnatGoSplat]

.2 ohms is perfect. Probably even up to 10-ohms would be no problem.

[Spoon]

The left park lights and stop lights work and the right park lights work, but I don't have any power at the right sockets for the stop lamps. I checked the ground there ok. both bulbs are ok as well.

[Crazy K]

sounds like it could be a faulty turn signal switch???

 

well the stop and turn signal lights use the samw wire... to the turn signals and flashers work?

 

for a resistance check, you could measure and compare the left and right stop lamp wires to each other...