No matter how old or new your home is many times when there is an electrical problem in your home there will be warning signs before the problem becomes so serious that you will have to hire an ...

Aside from a dead battery or faulty charging system, the most common electrical issues owners are likely to experience are burned-out light bulbs. After bulbs, though, it’s likely potluck: Electrical ...

Dear Steve: It may look easy to do electrical work, especially if you watch some of the home improvement shows on television, but it actually is quite involved. This is not to say you cannot do it ...

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Bob is a service technician who is well trained and nationally certified. However, he has sometimes suffered from the same confusion that all technicians occasionally do — the facts that he gathers ...

Ideally, you want to be able to take your home’s electrical system for granted. It should power your lights and appliances reliably, safely and invisibly. But it’s important to notice warning signs ...

A good digital multimeter (DMM) is key to diagnosing compressor problems in general. For instance, in a previous article (May 15 issue of The NEWS) we discussed using the DMM to read suction and ...

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Your busways, switchgear, and panel connections need to be the subject of thermographic analysis. But thermography has many uses beyond maintaining electrical infrastructure, even for those who are ...