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Ammeters have a low impedance, so if they are incorrectly connected in parallel to your load instead of in series, more current will flow through the circuit and the ammeter will almost act like a short. There is potential to burn our the ammeter.

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If the meter is connected properly and the current is zero then there is no current flow. When someone who doesn't know what they are doing uses a clamp-on meter around an extension cord, for example, and it reads zero then the reading reveals nothing about the current flowing in the parallel wires since current is instantaneously flowing in opposite directions in the parallel conductors and the induced fields cancel each other out in the coil of the clamp.

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The ammeter will almost certainly blow its fuse.

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