[John Earland]

Originally Posted by SiriusHardware

As a general rule, when measuring resistance, use the range whose maximum resistance is the next one above the resistance you are expecting to find (so for example if you were expecting to see zero ohms, you would use the lowest range your meter has, maybe 200 Ohms or 2K Ohms in your case). If you were expecting to see 12K resistance, you would initially use the 20K range on your meter, and if you were expecting to see, say, 150K, you would use the 200K range on your meter. If the resistance doesn't turn out to be in the range you expected then of course you can go up or down range to get a meaningful reading if necessary, just as you did when you made the last set of measurements.

This is the range on my multimeter