If your resistor is of greater resistance than the threshold on your meter, then even though current can flow through it, the meter will not register continuity. The continuity test applies a very small voltage to the circuit and check what current flows through it.
How do you know if a resistor is bad?
How to Know If Resistors Are Good or Bad
- Turn off the power running through the circuit containing the resistor you need to test. ...
- Look at the color bands around the barrels of the components for the code to determine resistor values. ...
- Check resistor values with the color codes.
Does resistance mean continuity?
Think of it this way: Continuity is a binary version of resistance. If the resistance of the thing we're testing—the wire we want to make sure isn't broken, the connection we want to be certain actually goes to ground, the switch we want to know works—is low (like less than 1 ohm), we say that it has continuity.
