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I think you are probably OK at 2.5 ohms, probably a bad regulator.
Many of the digital meters will show .2 ohms or so when the leads are shorted, why I love my old Simpson 260, we both look like crap cuz we have both been around the block a few thousand times but the meter still works perfectly...