Learning the Art of Electronics: 1L.4.3 10 mA Ammeter | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video we continue to work our way through Learning the Art of Electronics. In this video we continue with 1L Lab: DC Circuits and make a 10 mA ammeter with our meter movement.

We use the 5V LED we made last weekend to test our ammeter.

We use the Riden RD6006 Bench Power Supply to power our test circuit.

We use the EEVblog BM2257 Digital Multimeter to measure the resistance of our 100 µA meter movement.

We use the Multicomp Pro MP701033 Resistor Decade Box for our 23Ω shunt resistor.

We use the Carpenter Mechanical Pencil to take notes.

We use the Kaisi S-160 45x30cm Repair Mat as our workspace.

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p.s. if you’d like to see the making of the 5V LED circuit we used to test our ammeter, that is here: Electronics Project #25: Variable Brightness LED for Testing Ammeter | In The Lab With Jay Jay.


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Analog Meters for Learning the Art of Electronics

I was flipping through my copy of Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course (I have the first edition, this second edition comes out in Australia on 3 April 2025, I have a copy on pre-order, I think it’s already available in the USA) and I noticed that some analog meters are used in the first lab course.

So in preparation for doing that I purchased some analog meters, being these:

I am planning to start working through these projects on my YouTube channel @InTheLabWithJayJay at a rate of one project every 28 days starting April 1st. April 1st, being April Fools’ Day, is of course the traditional date for launching IT projects and it is also the one year anniversary of my video (which happens to be my most popular YouTube video by a large margin): New Book Teardown #3: Learning The Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course (2016) | In The Lab.