How to test for a short to ground (ohmmeter vs test light)

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- short to ground testing with an ohmmeter
- why a test light may not locate a short to ground
- impedance of a multimeter
- bypass test with a test light
- how to find direction when troubleshooting
- basics of a GM electronic spark timing system
- parallel and series circuits
- Ohms law
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As a dealer tech with 7 years experience it’s really satisfying watching these videos years later knowing al the answers from experience. This video is a great example of why we learn basic ohms law, watts law and volt drop testing

[@johmu5466]

This video should be required viewing for every high school science teacher & student, electrical-mechanical tech, and ENGINEER out there...!! Many still don't get these concepts, or not well enough to put the knowledge to use in real time (to competently do real troubleshooting / work with-efficiency)... ...Too... Your focus on comparing a circuit with low resistance vs a circuit with high resistance and specifically noting the effect of your body on circuit resistance readings in each of those scenarios makes it super clear and easy to remember... Showing the related math calculations shows a genuine connection between the real world and mathematics & aids learning... ...Also, showing the MANY ways to get measurements and conclusions and next-actions wrong thru improper grounding and hookups and logic is going to save many people time and money and effort (and likely-embarrassment) by avoiding false starts / false conclusions... Thanks for "showing all the work"... Sometimes folks learn best when the instructor follows the side routes that the instructor really didn't want to get into but does anyway (like you just did!)...

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So the story is that the car wasnt starting up because the injectors werent getting a signal from the ECM due to the viper alarm stealing some juice supplied by the ICM to the ECM. Thank you for educating future technicians properly and i admire your passion, keep up the good work!

[@victorsartin]

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[@victorsartin]

I"M WORKING ON A SIMILAR PROBLEM RIGHT NOW 2008 TOYOTA SCION XB, KARR 4040a, KS9495 4p any input would greatly appreciated thanks

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"ScannerDanner." As an "ex" USAF Avionics kind of guy (who, at 79, is trying to learn the concepts of the CAN Buss system) I have to say your class was excellent! I've taught aircraft electronics, and watching and listening to you in class, brought back SO many memories of those days. Asking those "overhead questions" and then having all of those WRONG answers coming back to you, is - disconcerting! :) You begin thinking, "why don't these folks know these answers! We've covered that, in depth, previously." ha, ha.Wanted to specifically comment on your last discussion with the class about the wire with the corrosion, and using your volt meter. As a young technician (a 100 years ago :) I experienced that situation, for real, on an airplane's Rudder Trim position indicating system. I had an 11 Meg Ohm meter with me at the transmitter (a 28V DC system). I disconnected the transmitter's connector and read the power input to ground - was 28V DC. So, I thought, bad xmitter. Installed the new one - did not work. Fussed around for awhile, then an "aircraft electrician" friend of mine came by and asked what the trouble was. Explained it all to him. He reached in his pocket and handed me a 28VDC test light with two leads. Connected it to the connector's power socket and ground socket. It DID NOT light. Friend said, you have a high resistance connection in the wire - probably a corroded terminal (it was) Must tell you, before I did anything else, my friend took a piece of safety wire and stuck it in the 28VDC connector socket and touched the other end to the airframe and asked me to see if the circuit breaker was "popped." It was NOT! Found I had a 20K corroded terminal in the belly of the plane. - that 20K was a BIG resistor. NOW: Moral of the story. The SUM of the voltage drops must equal the applied voltage in a DC circuit. True. With the xmitter in the circuit (ohmic value of around 300 ohms) most all of the circuit voltage was dropped across the corroded terminal - nothing left of the circuit voltage to operate the xmitter. When the Meter was in the circuit, the 11meg of Impedance dropped the majority of the 28Volts - the small remainder now dropped at the 20K resistance. So, it APPEARED that the circuit voltage was fine, but it was NOT. Always carried a test light with me from then on.Had to tell you about this, as this is exactly what you were explaining in your class. Thanks, USAF, MSgt. Ret.

[@josephburton92]

Michael Donavon they don’t have test lights in our boxes anymore lol

[@joelawson6687]

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[@Edi-01]

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[@gerardopalomar3570]

I had a similar case of good spark no injection pulse, I end up being a missing power at the ECM. It has 2 powers directly from battery and 1 from fuse box, fuse was good but female pins had corrosion. That same fuse also powers check engine warning light. Vehicle came from another shop, they putted a new fuel pump, ignition module, hot fuel module, 2 new distributor, ignition coil. Most of my diagnostic skills that I use everyday I learned from Mr. Danner by watching both of his premium and free channels and reading his book. God bless you Mr. Danner and thanks for your magnificent work. (89/Chevy/silv)

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[@terrymc5180]

What’s with the low outlook on dealer techs, I’m one of those dealer techs , we constantly get cars that do the rounds to independent workshops, chasing an issue that can’t be fixed, finally ending back in a dealership with extra problems , ie musical chairs , the tech draws the short straw , and is answerable to about five people above and cannot pass the job on .

[@AW-ty5qi]

@@terrymc5180 yeah was thinking the exact same, I’m at a dealer and would have started with a short to ground test with my meter way before deciding to touch a test light on an input to the ecu lol. And we also get loads of cars from independent ‘specialists’ that are misdiagnosed that we manage to get to the bottom of without firing up the parts cannon 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@py2724]

TEACH IT & PREACH IT

[@judodavid1]

So a good wire will read OL, what type of readings do you typically get on partial short to ground?

[@joshmarmolejo7980]

Love the case study. This is why load testing a circuit is so important. Always load test circuits. I have seen a few thousands of an inch of corrosion do the same thing.

[@1202Sid]

I had a similar case that kicked my ass a few year back. In my case it was a remote starter that had failed. This module was deep inside the dash behind the climate controls and the antenna was hidden cleanly between the roof line and windshield. Customer had no clue and no remotes (used car also). Found a resistance to ground of about 2k. Followed the wire and found the splice. Took me a little longer than Paul to find it... ok ok a lot longer... but I found it. Never have I seen a remote so well installed. I doubt I'll ever see that again, but I have learned from it and this video brings so much clarity to the hole thing. I finally fully understand what was going on. Thank you

[@ozziecrosby2092]

Well I wish there was someone I could trust close to me because I have a Honda accord that keeps blowing the FI ECU fuse and I changed the fuel pump, the crankshaft position sensor, the main fuel pump relay, fi ecu relay.....still blowing the 15a fi ecu fuse. I just don't know anyone that knows what they're doing that isn't going to charge me more than the car is worth trying to hunt down a short. It's a beautiful car. 2004 with 100,000 miles. Ready to send it to the junkyard.

[@1202Sid]

@@ozziecrosby2092 Those can be tricky to find specially if it is intermittent issue like a short that only happens in very rare specific circumstances. Does the fuse blow inconstantly and predictably ? Also was the fuse box check for internal corrosion ?

[@ozziecrosby2092]

@@1202Sid..... About 2 weeks ago, I was sitting at a KFC eating my lunch, I had the radio and the AC on. My phone was plugged in. Car was running fine and it just stopped running. The very first thing I did was disconnect the battery and reconnect it, thinking maybe it was the crankshaft sensor. When that didn't work, I had to have it towed. When I turned the key and didn't hear the fuel pump, I just assumed it was bad. Changed it.That didn't work. Going on to a few forums I kept seeing references to the crankshaft sensors in these Honda's going bad and blowing the 15 amp fuse to the fuel injection. Replaced it....still no start. Replacing the main fuel pump relay and the main fuel injection relay didn't work either. As soon as you turn the key to the on position, the 15 amp fuse under the hood blows. I'm hesitant about sending this car to a shop and paying over 70 bucks an hour to chase this problem. The car is a cream puff. It was owned by an old lady that had it since it was new and never drove it in the winter. I would hate to think that I am going to have to send this thing to the junkyard with just over 100,000 miles on it, but I'm about to. I certainly don't want to see somebody else driving it after finding out that it was something simple. And, to my knowledge, there's no alarm.

[@ozziecrosby2092]

@@1202Sid... Hey!! So after throwing about 300 dollars in parts at it, I had it towed to a shop. It was a 30 dollar idle air control valve. That's what was popping the fi ecu fuse. So mad. 🧐 All the forums I have been on and I never heard anything about the IAC valve. Oh Well.... live and learn....😏

[@tchotto5613]

@@ozziecrosby2092 Hello ! Thks for sharing the solution you found to that fuse problem ! Hope you kept the parts that you changed without reason as spare ones ! At the end, you didn't loose that much as you saved your car from the junkyard ! Enjoy your driving !!!!! Cheers ! 2020-05-19

[@AGN_Customs_LLC]

Awesome video! I’m an electrician and this method of process of elimination is used everyday. You hit the nail on the head with this video!

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[@robertbrady2003]

You were on the right track, it is product over sum , a 3ohm and a 2ohm in parallel = 3x2 = 6ohms , 3+2 = 5ohms, 6 ohms ÷ 5ohms = 1.1ohms .

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[@letzrockitrite8469]

Your students, with their line of questioning seemed to sidetrack you for a time, but I'd like to bring you back to this important question at the point of sidetrack: You mentioned that if the circuit DID NOT have a short to ground that the meter would max out and read ohm with an ohm sign ... so now the question... What would the meter read if there was a short to ground when testing on the wire/circuit in question between the ICM and ECM? .. thanks for a great tutorial.... I knew you were a great mechanic but seeing you teach this class, I was amazed at you abilities to get things across.. many thanks SD

[@letzrockitrite8469]

Zero?

[@ScannerDanner]

This circuit had a 900ohm short to ground on it through an aftermarket viper alarm system

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Enjoyed the video Paul as always!

[@mgbroussard]

Don't sweat the formulas, learned magnetism and electronics in college physics and could not remember that formula either. It was great to see the practical application in automotive troubleshooting. I have always been frustrated with my inability to apply the college education to this. This video was very helpful, heck it was really good. Thanks.

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[@mdlm2011]

Great case study. The ohms law math for parallel resistors is 1/ref= 1/# + 1/#. So, the reference resistance would be 1/12 + 1/400,000. Then, the reference resistance is 1/0.0833= 12.048 ohms. You’re an excellent instructor.

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I REALLY wished I would have had someone that ACTUALLY TAUGHT class when I was in tech school. My instructor ONLY lectured class on electrical. We were left with our text books for the rest.

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Aww man im excited!!! Just found out about your online course and ill definitely be starting next month! I've been working on vehicles for sometime now even went to my local ComColl but didn't finish due to a back injury. Im going back but ima learn so much from this course in the meantime! I really enjoy all the KZbin vids keep up the excellent work!!! Looking forward to classes and future content 🤘👍

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fantastic , just brilliant stuff , always said if you have a great teacher that can put it to basics so that everyone can understand , real champion this guy.

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This video is totally and utterly fascinating and educational you know Paul I have been fixing computers for 15 years and I thought I knew a bit of stuff about resistance voltage etc but I have learnt more from you in the last month then I have in all that time thank you

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Excellent lecture Paul. My note books are getting full!

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[@danielgeng2306]

As an electrician before we perform an ohm test we do a lead test by obviously touching the leads together and seeing that 0 ohm reading .

[@nicke2307]

Hey Paul as part of an electrical class extra credit project I showed how the parallel circuit fraction equation is derived from simply using kirchoffs law and ohms law. I'll post it on the forum it's not as mysterious as people might think and involves simple algebra

[@danstark462]

Good job sir. I liked your lecture, very informative. Keep up the good work.

[@jamesbarratt593]

Amazing i missed this video. I had paised with the class as Paul had asked what is wrong with just connecting the meter leads to the end of the wire. Its not a short to ground test. Makes sense. First you set highest rating on ohm setting and then with neg touching body of car, touch other leed to another part of the car to test neg connection good. Then pos touch leed to test for shortto ground. Awesome I never knew this. Now I do.

[@mieljohnc.espere4219]

Nice one.. series and parallel circuit... Good Job.

[@kyhomegarage3430]

Excellent lecture thank you so much.

[@frundlemud]

Excellent lesson.

[@spelunkerd]

What an excellent case study! When you told the story of missing the high resistance short to ground and replacing the ICM, I thought, I would definitely have made the same mistake. The only thing better than making a mistake yourself to trigger hard memory is watching somebody else demonstrate the same mistake. There had to be internal inline resistors on both the ICM side and the ECM side. Extra resistance inside the ECM allowed the natural signal to bypass the ECM on its way to ground, and extra resistance inside the ICM dropped the square wave signal to an undetectable level when you looked for the signal initially. It had to be a 'Goldilocks' resistance at the short -- too low and the scratch test would not have triggered fuel injectors, too high and you would have detected a signal when testing the wire initially.

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[@spelunkerd]

As we speak, ha ha, the goal is 10,000 hours including shop time.

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where was this guy when my stupid truck started acting possessed? Great video man

[@gkauffman4080]

Directed (Viper) wire color violet/white is tach input on their remote start systems. Has no alarm function. They only cut the crank wire.Probably was a combo alarm remote start. If the wire got chafed to ground or something went bad in main module of the r/s it would cause this.I diagnosed a car (camaro) long ago where this happened. Installer did not grommet the purple/white through the firewall. Just drilled a hole and called it good. Wire started to wear through and the car would barely run. Love the Vids! Thanks

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[@tonyfremont]

Just like SD said, regardless of the resistance in line, the voltage makes it through. But once you connect the non-infinite internal resistance of the voltmeter to it, the voltage will drop according to Ohms law, because current is flowing, posdibly really tiny current, but still there, leading to voltage drop. The plastic on the outside of a positive battery cable is at 12V, but the resistance of the plastic is incredibly high, so very tiny current will ever flow through it. There are no perfect conductors (at least not at room temperature), and there are no perfect insulators, just very good ones in each category. All conductors are insulators to some point, and all insulators are conductors, it's all a matter of perspective. If your only going to learn one way to calculate parallel resistance, learn the inverse rule. It works for two or two thousand parallel resistances. Never forget that the total resistance will always be less than the smallest individual resistance with parallel resistances.

[@fantasticdill2872]

Sir your 💯 % right on last meter voltage drops that point ,👍

[@SethHarr]

Great stuff as always danner thanks so much

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Excellent explanation. TQVM

[@Pdubforever1]

aww thank God. i miss ur in class lectures. back to ur old days, lol

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Patrick I'm also on ur fb page

[@everardocamacho5063]

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[@rick31869]

NO STALL PAUL LOL ,BRING YOUR CAR TO SCANNERDANNER AND NO LONGER WILL IT STALL !!! LOL , i enjoy this video very much brother ,these classroom videos are off the chain !!!! enjoyed the ohms law lesson too ,its been decades i really thought about them ,this is where everything started !

[@kellismith4329]

I am so glad I found this video, this helped me alot thanks Any advice on what kind of a icm to use in the gm’s as a replacement ?

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You are a Great Teacher..

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Incredible class, thank you so much. Very didactic

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[@frankyv5999]

wow this is going in my favorite, favorite, favorite videos 👍😜

[@welltekdiagnostics6835]

at 36:35 mint ,the only way to prove your point that open circuit voltage is equal to voltage source no matter what resistance value you have ,is to use labscop,As you said multimeter internal resistance will create current path which will create voltage drop less than Voltage source .bottom line a wire without a load (no current flow) voltage reading should equal source voltage..Good video ..no body should argue with you ...you are a great teacher .

[@ScannerDannerPremium]

Thanks man. Actually the lab scopes I use (pico, verus, vantage) have less internal impedance than a DMM. Somewhere around 2 mega ohms? So the lab scope would actually drop this voltage even more. But the rest of your comment was on point. Thanks!

[@JamesSmith-xs7sr]

Truth! Pick/choose your diag path correctly...

[@mukwati]

Yes I'm qualified. I attended KZbin uni. I have a combined experience of 100 years from watching people try things.

[@edwarddowling9148]

Very knowledgeable guy great channel 😊

[@aatonhernandez3561]

Great lecture

[@nnyden465]

I know I've seen one of your training videos where you explain how an open circuit with super high resistance reads less that source voltage due to voltmeter impedance. Just can't remember which one. Thanks for the vid.

[@frankdavidson9675]

an open circuit with super high resistance -----no such animal you can not have an open and high resistance at the same time

[@Mrneal1027]

He the coldest ever for this class

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this class had some challenging students to say the least. When in the video was I cold? Thanks!

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you are a good teacher in the world danner

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Thank you my friend

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Nice video, from Peru

[@Jnaial]

Amazing video Paul

[@mattdloughy5369]

Paul did you have a video on that van with the viper alarm system? I swear I saw it before. If so can you provide the link?

[@bilaltariq7819]

12:08 was very helpful for me: if the TL lights, then the wire is shorted to ground. if the TL doesn't light, the test is indeterminate => we need to inspect the voltage closely and if it's not 0 then check short to ground on the wire out of circuit

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Thanks SD.

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[@timowallin8020]

Great video , man! One time ABS-module had green stuff from connector to in te module it self.... wire connector was allso melted a little. So before fixed ABS module was Installed, i check ABS-wires (dos it just need new connector or little more), why that connector melted. in firsth place? Car battery was out and my multymeter showd that my main power wire had a conection to the car body even without the fuse in place. ...The melted plastic connector made the connection betwean main earth and postive wire, without metals tushing.... After that learn curve, i allways test connector houseing to the wires before i take down the car to find nothing is outofplace. as plastic(specialy melted one) can make your ohm meter go wild too :D

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Good teacher good knowledge pls help me out how does spark plugs work thanks

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This is some great stuff :D

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Thanks brother

[@aaronfranco1166]

the formula for the Resistance is 1/R = 1/R1 +1/R2 1/R = (R1 + R2)/R1xR2 gives you R =(R1xR2)/(R1+R2)

[@luvstruck2733]

What do you think of Dan Sullivan? And the Load Pro?

[@danielgeng2306]

You guys need an Ugly’s book ! It’s an electrical reference book we use in the electrical trade, it would be super helpful to you guys ! Get it at the home depot for 20 bucks. It has all the basic formulas and calcs explained.

[@aldoalduvinhernandezzavala8036]

you are the best

[@candyflowers7524]

Now I'm never done this so it might sound crazy but I just want to know if there's a color code that you could show video on for a 97 Grand Cherokee Limited 4.0 l 6 cylinder 4 PCM

[@RockHounder-jn8hs]

bad ass info appreciate it

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Thank you!

[@cesarpereira5965]

Good class

[@sonamyblackeskimo3618]

Hi, Awesome video! i have a quick question... if you use your multi meter in ohms and you grounded to the battery negative post...is it okay still? I know you've said to look for a good metal ground, im just curious to know, thanks

[@fedor4491]

I met the same situation with meter impedance when measured voltage on low current circuit. I had wrong measuring due to low impedance my meter. It must be 10 Mohms or more.

[@Bseries_Vans]

@scannerdanner should I have 14 volts on a body ground with engine running??

[@paulfiebke3909]

I know what you mean keep u the good work,

[@abdulganiyuhamza7810]

Good knowledge thanks sir in Peugeot diagram we have two or three ware which one can put the test light on thanks sir please feed me back

[@DavidGutierrez-zi4dy]

EXCELLENT

[@Jason1234567ful]

Hey ScannerDanner love your work, i have an issue, my alternator gets real hot when running However it chargers fine 13.9 to 14.5 volts while charging but it gets hots in the process i dont think thats normal, any pointers you have for me.