I'm having laptop battery problems, and the hardware manual gave diagnostic instructions involving measuring the voltage in the battery. So I bought a multimeter (never used one before in my life) and had a go… but the probes are too big. The pins on the battery are tucked into little slots that the probes can't fit into.
What should I do to measure the voltage?
Best Answer
Do you have a small piece of electrical wire, like loudspeaker cable or telephone cable? You only need about 5 cm.
Strip the isolation to reveal the copper strands inside. Take two of those strands and wrap one around each probe tip. Do not wind the last centimeter but bend it so that it's an extension to the probes. Now you have very thin probes.