Very seriously, please try to find someone in your life who is experienced
with electricty. You already should know that electricity is dangerous, and
house power can kill you. Or kill someone else. Have that other person show
you some of the simple measurements. To answer your question, no, you can't
measure amps with two volt meters.

That said.....

To measure amps, you need a device like this:
http://www.harborfreight.com/clamp-o...ter-95683.html
The big open end clamp is clamped around ONE of the power wires, not both.
If you clamp the AC line cord, you get a reading of zero, as there is both a
hot and neutral. You need to separate out the wires, and clamp either the
hot, or the neutral.

Measure the voltage (volts scale, read at the power socket).

Volts times amps (multiply the two numbers) equals watts.

Christopher A. Young
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"Doug" wrote in message
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Can I use a voltmeter with probes to measure what the refrig uses? Do
I just measure the 2 sides of the refrig's electrical plug? Or how do
you do this measurement?