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Okay, now we want to perform a diode test. I have a 1N4001 diode here. And in order to test a diode, all we need to do is set our multimeter to the diode test function. You could see that there's a little diode symbol here. If I turn it my knob over to that diode test
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and I take the diode and remember on a diode this gray line here represents the cathode of the diode
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So I need to place my black probe from my multimeter on the gray line side on this leg here
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And my black lead is connected to my common of my multimeter
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I need to take my red probe of my multimeter and attach it to the anode of the diode
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And I getting a reading of about 0 which is a good voltage drop reading for the diode here
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Also, with the diode tester, you can test LEDs. I have these two blue LEDs here, and let's say I didn't know whether or not these LEDs were still functional
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So I get my LED and I connect my red probe, to the anode of the LED
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and I connect my black probe to the cathode of the LED
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and it's not lighting up. So if I take this other LED
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and connect the red probe to the anode of the LED and the black probe to the cathode of the LED
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we could see that the LED is lighting up on this one
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So that tells me that this first LED that I tried to measure is not working
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It's burnt out. It actually is burnt out. And this LED is working just fine
