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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we presented a 3-phase, 480VAC motor circuit with its associated controls (Figure). We stepped through a logical, systematic approach to troubleshoot the main power ...