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I'm trying to measure current on a cheap multimeter. It has an unfused 20A port and a fused 200mA port.

I'm using a simple circuit with an LED, a resistor and 5V DC and setting the multimeter dial to read maximum of 20mA DC input.

If I use the fused mA port I get the correct reading of about 2mA. If I use the same setting with the unfused 20A port I keep reading 0 even though the LED turns on. Is this normal or the is the multimeter broken?

This is the multimeter: https://i.sstatic.net/udxlO.jpg

I'm trying to measure current on a cheap multimeter. It has an unfused 20A port and a fused 200mA port.

I'm using a simple circuit with an LED, a resistor and 5V DC and setting the multimeter dial to read maximum of 20mA DC input.

If I use the fused mA port I get the correct reading of about 2mA. If I use the same setting with the unfused 20A port I keep reading 0 even though the LED turns on. Is this normal or is the multimeter broken?

This is the multimeter:

I'm trying to measure current on a cheap multimeter. It has an unfused 20A port and a fused 200mA port.

I'm using a simple circuit with an LED, a resistor and 5V DC and setting the multimeter dial to read maximum of 20mA DC input.

If I use the fused mA port I get the correct reading of about 2mA. If I use the same setting with the unfused 20A port I keep reading 0 even though the LED turns on. Is this normal or the is the multimeter broken?

I'm trying to measure current on a cheap multimeter. It has an unfused 20A port and a fused 200mA port.

I'm using a simple circuit with an LED, a resistor and 5V DC and setting the multimeter dial to read maximum of 20mA DC input.

If I use the fused mA port I get the correct reading of about 2mA. If I use the same setting with the unfused 20A port I keep reading 0 even though the LED turns on. Is this normal or the is the multimeter broken?

This is the multimeter: https://i.sstatic.net/udxlO.jpg

I'm trying to measure current on a cheap multimeter. It has an unfused 20A port and a fused 200mA port.

I'm using a simple circuit with an LED, a resistor and 5V DC and setting the multimeter dial to read maximum of 20mA DC input.

If I use the fused mA port I get the correct reading of about 2mA. However if I use the same setting with the unfused 20A port I keep reading 0 even though the LED turns on. Is this normal or the mutimeter is broken?

I'm trying to measure current on a cheap multimeter. It has an unfused 20A port and a fused 200mA port.

I'm using a simple circuit with an LED, a resistor and 5V DC and setting the multimeter dial to read maximum of 20mA DC input.

If I use the fused mA port I get the correct reading of about 2mA. If I use the same setting with the unfused 20A port I keep reading 0 even though the LED turns on. Is this normal or the is the multimeter broken?