Tag: Electrical

When we were old enough, we helped unpack the strings of colored lights used to decorate the tree.

Dyno Don was the used car man in a dealership where I worked as a line tech. Brakes, exhaust, spark plugs, and other assorted bolt-on items were his specialties.

Normally when we toss a letter into the mailbox, the last thing we want is to see it again, undeliverable and unopened.

It’s darned near impossible to find a common thread running through this month’s collection of Electrical Service items.

If you’ve been troubleshooting electrical problems on a hit-and-miss basis, the law of averages is not on your side.

Without voltage, there can be no electrical current.

We concluded last month’s Basic Electricity article talking about circuits and their operation. This month we deal with shorted circuits, current and voltage measurement, and some specific electrical components.

This article is intended to present the basic operation of components and circuits from a practical standpoint without going into the theory that bogs down most of us when we try to study and understand electricity.