Question

In a digital multimeter, what changes inside the meter when you push the button to change from 200v range to the 20v range? by what factor does it change? does it increase or decrease?

Answer 1

So we want to know what changes inside the multimeter when we change the voltage range from 200 V to  20 V, by what factor and does it increase or decrease. What we want when trying to measure the voltage with a multimeter is that a minimal current passes trough the mulitmeter so when we change the voltage range, we decrease the resistance by a factor of 10 because the voltage is decreased by a factor of 10.