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<blockquote data-quote="slabghost" data-source="post: 180794" data-attributes="member: 648"><p>All the circuits on the bike are powered at one time or another. Remove the battery or disconnect it and all circuits are still there but "unpowered" Meter uses it's own battery to induce a charge through the wire or device being tested. You are generally testing for continuity when trouble shooting with ohms. Certain tests of specific devices like switches or diodes need specific meter settings and readings. A switch with a high ohms reading indicates resistance and power loss. New switches will have very little resistance. So the answer to "why" you need to know resistance. Is to understand why you have say 9 volts at each coil when you have read 13 volts at the battery. You've lost a total of 4 volts between the battery and the coils. Due to the combined resistance of each connection and to some extent deteriorated wire between the two points.</p><p>As stated before. Wiring can be understood in relation to plumbing. Resistance in plumbing could be build up inside the pipes. Say a half inch pipe has calcified to the point it has only a one quarter inch open passage. You will then get only half the flow it had originally.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slabghost, post: 180794, member: 648"] All the circuits on the bike are powered at one time or another. Remove the battery or disconnect it and all circuits are still there but "unpowered" Meter uses it's own battery to induce a charge through the wire or device being tested. You are generally testing for continuity when trouble shooting with ohms. Certain tests of specific devices like switches or diodes need specific meter settings and readings. A switch with a high ohms reading indicates resistance and power loss. New switches will have very little resistance. So the answer to "why" you need to know resistance. Is to understand why you have say 9 volts at each coil when you have read 13 volts at the battery. You've lost a total of 4 volts between the battery and the coils. Due to the combined resistance of each connection and to some extent deteriorated wire between the two points. As stated before. Wiring can be understood in relation to plumbing. Resistance in plumbing could be build up inside the pipes. Say a half inch pipe has calcified to the point it has only a one quarter inch open passage. You will then get only half the flow it had originally. [/QUOTE]
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