The equipment in this month’s troubleshooting situation has been around a while. Installed in 1999, the unit is a Nordyne brand, Model #S3BA-60K, and the customer requesting service explained to the ...

If your stereo goes dead, your turn signals don't blink, a light goes out, or some other gadget stops working, it's often just the result of a blown fuse.You can change fuses yourself, easily and with ...

Spare fuses for test meters are cheap insurance against bungled repair jobs and angry customers. Ultimately, a blown fuse may upset a customer by unexpectedly delaying a critical repair job. Worse yet ...

If there's an electrical component on the fritz in your car or something that's stopped working entirely, one of the first ...

The lights blink, the kettle dies mid-boil, and the house exhales into silence. You’re left squinting at labels and rummaging a drawer where bent nails, old batteries and a crumpled strip of kitchen ...

In midcareer, I became a component engineer. Soon after I arrived in my new department, I faced a problem that had been ongoing for some time. It seems that a simple fuse in a CRT display had been ...

In our previous issue, we noted that the first step in troubleshooting digital input modules is to verify the power source of each loop. If input power is missing, the causes can be such things as ...

Electrical problems are one of the most common problems encountered by technicians in the field. One common pitfall service technicians fall into is approaching the issue by testing specific ...

How the smart fuse itself works, as opposed to a regular fuse, in a car. Operation of the smart fuse’s power-on and bang-bang functionalities. How the smart fuse’s boot-up operation works. From ...