Issues like this are why using the famed "Ohm" setting on your meter is fairly useless, unless testing for shorts to ground, or power to frame or other dead shorted areas. I've been mis-led by Ohm readings myself, so I prefer a voltage drop method. Plus this is better applied any because you're able to tell if the coil fails under full load, instead of that 0.3 Volts that you're meter puts through it.