The skin has various points with different impedance. For example so called "acupuncture points" have much lower impedance than the others. The skin thickness also varies. This is the reason you can't measure correct the skin resistance with a DC multimeter on ohm range and it's multimeter probes. You need some skin electrodes and an AC impedance measurement to avoid electrolysis (the skin is moist). Vasile On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Ryan O'Connor wrote: > Yes, multimeter probes. > > On 28 March 2015 at 01:38, embedded systems wrote: > > Which is your electrode surface for measurement? The probe tip of your > > multimeter? > > see here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_shock > > > > Vasile > > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Ryan O'Connor > wrote: > > > >> I don't understand it. I measured my slightly sweaty skin and it had a > >> resistance of about 1Mohm per inch. How can it create a short? > >> > >> Ryan > >> -- > >> http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > >> View/change your membership options at > >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > >> > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > > View/change your membership options at > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .