If you have an electric oven or water heater and find that suddenly it is no longer producing heat, there are some really simple tests to check what may be causing it. If you are able to determine that it is the heating element, then you can easily replace this yourself without hiring expensive technicians …
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There are many helpful uses of multimeters around your house and while many of these are typically used on your vehicle or in your home, it is also very useful for smaller engines you use including your lawnmower. If you have ever tried starting your lawn mower and pulled that cord over and over without …
What is leakage current? Leakage current in an electrical circuit is one type of problem with the current that flows from the circuit into the ‘ground’. To understand ground, you think of a normal grounded outlet in the US. A grounded outlet is the one with three holes instead of two. The slightly bigger hole that’s placed …
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Most of our houses are built with an electrical grounding system; these systems help to prevent electrical faults and shocks. They are called the Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI), but the groundings can develop some flaws after some years. Ground faults are likely to occur in wet areas of your house, like your kitchen or …
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Measuring resistance on a multimeter can be really easy with some very simple steps. Resistance, otherwise known as ohms, is needed to be measured for many reasons. You may want to check resistance in order to see the accuracy of a resistor. Or you may not know the resistance of a circuit and want to …
One of the most popular customization projects in cars is putting in better audio equipment. Whether it’s upgrading the whole audio system or just putting in better speakers, upgrading the audio in your car is a very common project. This also makes it one of the most common projects to look at your car’s wiring, …
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Energy is stored in capacitors in the form of electric charges. Capacitors are too important to ignore; they are electrical components that perform significant roles in your electronics. Capacitors carry out the functions of charging and discharging, which is releasing charge into the circuit through a plate of the capacitor when a first charged plate …
You have replaced that old light socket with a brand new one and you want to make sure that it’s functional? You want to test your light socket to make sure that it’s in good order for bulbs? If your answer to any of those questions is affirmative, or if you are just curious and love to …
It can sometimes be very confusing to test fan motors for people who don’t have much experience. This guide will hopefully make testing fan motors for you easy, regardless of your experience level or type of fan motor that you are testing. As you probably know, fan motors can be designed for several different purposes. Most common of …
You turn the car on and start the radio but no matter how much you try, you just can’t get the radio to work? I will show you how to diagnose the problem and, if you are lucky, repair it without the need for a mechanic.Car stereo issues are very common, especially with older cars. This problem …
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