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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gebrochen" data-source="post: 5578390" data-attributes="member: 571890">It would just read an inaccurate measurement.  It wouldn't blow the fuse unless you were measuring current and exceeded the limit.  It would have been very obvious something was wrong if you had it on DC measuring AC voltage.[edit] the reason it wouldn't pop the fuse is because measuring a negative voltage is just as valid as a positive one.  The DMM would just show confusing updates of random crap as the voltage swung between +85V and -85V (or whatever the real AC reading should have been).  Totally pulling it out of my ***, but maybe some meters would interpret that you wanted to know the DC offset.  Never seen that, though.</blockquote>

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