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<p>[quote user="trafficdesign"]</p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">BMMECNYC</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p>Do you have a volt meter with a continuity checker?  If so turn off layout power, commince finding shorts.  Do you have any other feeders than the ones shown in the picture earlier? </p> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>yep. I have a multimeter with a continuity setting but I've never used it before. I gather that it reads 1.0 and continuity would be a 0.0 which means that it is the same polarity.  If I get a 1.9 that is a short... Correct?</p> <p>Problem is I am not sure where to test or what I am looking for??????</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>I dont know what brand of multi-meter you have, but the setting you need to use should say OL or 0 when there is no short and some number and possibly a beep when there is (test this by shorting the probes together).</p>
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