You’re 100 miles from shore, fishing on the edge of a deep drop-off. The bait is everywhere down below the surface, and your navigation display dims, flickers, and the picture rolls up like a ...

The useful troubleshooting techniques that follow are the result of 20 years of electrical-engineering projects in the automotive, biomedical, instrumentation, and telecommunications areas.

It’s important to learn and use component-level troubleshooting skills to diagnose and repair electronic problems, even in today’s world. The process involves digging into an electronic device, ...

Repairing reach-in coolers and freezers with electronic temperature controllers can be challenging at times. Some failures are easy to troubleshoot and repair, but others can be frustrating. For ...

When looking at protocol information on a bus, an oscilloscope may not be the first instrument to come to mind�until now. As most engineers know, digital oscilloscopes are an indispensable ...

We know not everyone who likes to build circuitry wants to dive headfirst into the underlying electrical engineering that makes everything work. However, if you want to, now is a great time. Many ...

Today’s digital systems, from the video game console to the complex switching elements in a communications network, rely on serial bus technology to do their job. Not surprisingly, a host of ...