How To Check Ups Battery With Multimeter. Hook the multimeter to the battery terminals. Your multimeter and battery are probably both color coded so the negative terminal and probe will be black while the positive terminal and probe are red.

Touch the red probe to the positive terminal and the black probe to the negative terminal. Turn on your multimeter and turn it to DC voltage then 20 volts. In the above test battery with multimeter diagram i only shown the method of testing battery with a digital multi meter and i shown a car battery testing.
Touch the red multimeter probe to the positive terminal of the 9-volt battery.
Your battery and voltmeter are color-coded and a negative terminal and probe will be black while a. Check for volt levels on the battery. If you are getting anything above 12V youre good to go. To do this Move the selector dial to select DC.

