In my college days
I made parallel combination of various shunt resistors (it took a bit of calculations) and connected one end of the all the shunts to Ground and other to a switch and marked the switch with various current ranges and voltage dividing factor and used my voltmeter in 0-10V range.
Hi Audioguru
Well I didnt know it was call burden but then I guess my current meter handled the burden very well :lol:
I used it for around two years and leater it was use by my juniors for a year or so after that I dint know what happened to it
But I hope my current meter is handling its burden now also
Well Guys
I think you misundertood me
When I said I used 0-10V range I meant the range my voltmeter was in
Well the voltmeter I had in college age was quite a cheap one and its minimum range was 0-10V (but it cld i think display around 2 or 3 decimal places I dont remember exatcly now)
And I think the maximum I measured was 5A which I guess dropped arnd 1.5V or so which was OK for the circuit I was measuring in. and the minimum current measurable was around 10mA