diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 88aceb0055..7aa31fb600 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Distributed = "1"
 Distributions = "0.23, 0.24, 0.25"
 DocStringExtensions = "0.7, 0.8, 0.9"
 DomainSets = "0.6"
-DynamicQuantities = "0.8"
+DynamicQuantities = "0.8, 0.9, 0.10"
 ForwardDiff = "0.10.3"
 FunctionWrappersWrappers = "0.1"
 Graphs = "1.5.2"
diff --git a/src/systems/unit_check.jl b/src/systems/unit_check.jl
index ac73bb24c9..02567fa6a9 100644
--- a/src/systems/unit_check.jl
+++ b/src/systems/unit_check.jl
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ function __get_literal_unit(x)
         return nothing
     end
     v = value(x)
-    getmetadata(v, VariableUnit, nothing)
+    u = getmetadata(v, VariableUnit, nothing)
+    u === nothing ? nothing : screen_unit(u)
 end
 function __get_scalar_unit_type(v)
     u = __get_literal_unit(v)
diff --git a/test/dq_units.jl b/test/dq_units.jl
index d0dc2b0bb4..406292a344 100644
--- a/test/dq_units.jl
+++ b/test/dq_units.jl
@@ -59,16 +59,11 @@ end
 end
 @named p1 = Pin()
 @named p2 = Pin()
-@named op = OtherPin()
+@test_throws MT.ValidationError @named op = OtherPin()
 @named lp = LongPin()
 good_eqs = [connect(p1, p2)]
-bad_eqs = [connect(p1, p2, op)]
-bad_length_eqs = [connect(op, lp)]
 @test MT.validate(good_eqs)
-@test !MT.validate(bad_eqs)
-@test !MT.validate(bad_length_eqs)
 @named sys = ODESystem(good_eqs, t, [], [])
-@test_throws MT.ValidationError ODESystem(bad_eqs, t, [], []; name = :sys)
 
 # Array variables
 @variables t [unit = u"s"] x(t)[1:3] [unit = u"m"]