YES, I do have a meter but I 'ONLY" use it for two things 1.presence of voltage and 2. continuity and Rrumbler had to tell me which setting to use to check those. I am electrically illiterate and have always been so I don't even try to understand it - - - probably because I've always been scared of it and of burning things up because of a possible screw up - - - now you know the rest of the story.