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How to Diagnose Car Electrical Problems by Tracing Voltage Drops Electricity shouldn't be daunting, especially when it comes to automotive wiring.   |
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July 2009 |
How to Replace A Broken Fan Motor: DIY Auto There's a brief sizzle from under the dash, followed by an even more acrid smell. What's going on? Paradise by the dashboard vents is over. Your fan motor has died. |
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December 2006
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The Boat Doctor - Shock-less Therapy Troubleshoot your electronics with a digital volt-ohm meter. Many boaters own one, or should, but few know how to use it. |
PC World
January 31, 2002
Stan Miastkowski |
Avoid Static Damage to Your PC If you're upgrading your PC, static electricity can cause real damage. But a few precautions can protect sensitive electronics... |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007 |
How to Properly Check the Juice in Your Car Battery There's more to checking a battery than simply testing the voltage and looking inside for low water. |
Popular Mechanics
March 3, 2010
Mike Allen |
Anatomy of Toyota's Problem Pedal: Mechanic's Diary Toyota deserves a better deal than the media and Congress are giving it. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2003
Mike Allen |
How To Charge Your Battery Motorhomes, tractors, boats, motorcycles and other occasional-use vehicles should use a battery-maintainer style of charger to prevent battery damage. The permanent extra wiring harness makes it easy to hook up the charger when necessary. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009
Seth Porges |
How to Make Your Own Battery-Powered Gadget Chargers There's no magic to a cellphone charger. It's really little more than a plastic-wrapped strip of copper wire designed to deliver power (stepped down in voltage and converted to DC, of course) from an outlet to your phone battery. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2004 |
New Products Fixed-Carbon-Composition Resistor... Miniature 40/60-Watt Power Supply... Three-Phase and Neutral EMC Filter... PolySwitch to Prevent Damage to Control Boards... Low Profile Switching Power Supplies... 150-Volt Rectifiers... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2006
Mike Allen |
Troubleshooting Antilock Braking Your ABS light is on. Now what? |
Popular Mechanics
March 17, 2009 |
6 Low-Voltage Electrical Repairs You can Do Yourself Doorbell doesn't ring, or rings continuously... Wall or ceiling light doesn't light... Cordless power tools losing power... Cordless phone won't hold a charge... Extension cord resistance... |
Popular Mechanics
January 2009
Mike Allen |
How to Read a Mechanic's Work Order: Saturday Mechanic You can troubleshoot your repair after it's done -- without turning a wrench. Here's an overview of the sometimes confusing world of the repair order. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2005
Ben Ames |
Power electronics drive next-generation vehicles From electric-drive ships to hybrid Humvees, military vehicles that rely on electric motors will soon rely on advanced power electronics to handle huge voltages in their drive trains. Designers of military vehicles, in fact, see electric power as the next great frontier. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2008 |
C&K Offers Miniature Sealed Long-Life Snap-Action Switches C&K Components has developed a series of miniature sealed snap-action switches for space-sensitive applications requiring long life and high electrical capabilities. |
Technology Research News
January 26, 2005
Eric Smalley |
Nano Bridge Builds Logic Researchers from the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science have given an old technology -- the mechanical electric switch -- a quantum update. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009 |
International Rectifier Introduces Rugged Power ICs for Automotive Applications The AUIRS4427S is a dual low-side driver power integrated circuit (IC) for low-, mid-, and high-voltage rugged power control automotive applications, such as motor drives, automotive DC-DC converters, or hybrid power train drives. |
Wired
April 2001 |
Micropower Goes Macro Businesspeople and homeowners alike are learning that generating their own electricity is cheaper - and more reliable - than buying it from centralized power plants... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2004
Janesch & Ivons |
Choosing the Right Switch System Challenges Test Engineers Despite a variety of electronic systems, for all of them automation can improve them. An essential part of automated testing is a switching system, which routes signals between measurement instruments and the device under test (DUT). |
Home Toys
February 2005
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Remote Control Your Home Via the Internet Using Web Services with Inexpensive AC Wireless Controllers These remote devices offer a solution for remotely sensing an event of interest, such as a door opening, window, etc. when it's not convenient to run ethernet or other wires to it. With the client software from BroadbandSentry, the configuration is set on the web to sense a change to the status pin chosen. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2004
Ben Ames |
Power Control is Trickier Than it Used to be Modern military equipment must be reliable and inexpensive, as designers rely on electronic components to ensure high performance on the digital battlefield. |
Popular Mechanics
October 7, 2009
Tyghe Trimble |
The Backwater DIY Electric Boat Marathon The Wye Island Marathon is located on the east side of the Bay Bridge by St. Michael's, Maryland, where the Wye River meets the Chesapeake Bay. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Mike Allen |
How to Fix Car Radio Static Here's how to test for a bad diode with nothing more than a decent digital multimeter. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2006 |
High-voltage wire harness and backplane analyzer The easy-wire CH2 high-voltage wiring harness and backplane tester offers test voltages to 1500 volts DC and 1000 volts AC in a modular system available with 160 to 20,000 test points. |
PC Magazine
July 11, 2007
Bill Howard |
Ford's 80-MPG Hydrogen Hybrid Ford's new Hy-Series hydrogen-electric hybrid car will save you money by achieving 80 miles per gallon. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2010 |
DC-DC Converter Power Electronics Module Introduced by VPT for Avionics and Military Power Applications VPT is introducing the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VPT100+ 2800 DC-DC converter military power supply module for military applications, and other high-power electronics systems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2004 |
New Products Overload-protected plastic relays for military and aerospace... Remote solid-state power-controller board... Electrically conductive adhesive solders... Rugged low-noise amplifiers for GPS applications.. etc. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Andrew Benton |
A Review of AC Surge Protection and Power Conditioning SurgeX protection meets the most stringent requirements of the Federal CID, was designed to withstand an unlimited number of category C1 surges as defined by IEEE 62.41-1991, filters out transients, and does not require close proximity to the building-ground to operate with total effectiveness. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2006 |
Li-Ion 2-kilowatt Uninterruptible Power Supply Transistor Devices Inc. is introducing a lightweight, man- or vehicle-transportable 2-kilowatt uninterruptible AC power supply that uses high-performance lithium-ion battery technology to provide reliable AC power in the field. |
Boating
November 2003
Kevin Falvey |
Doral 47: What's Sexy Now The art of seduction: Doral's new Algeria planes faster and flatter than just about any other express cruiser in this size range (it has an LOA of 47'4"), and its close-quarters handling is stellar. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2007
Mike Allen |
You Shocked Me All Ride Long: Auto Clinic Fights Static The same laundry product that keeps clothes from clinging stops your car seat from sticking your hair up with static electricity. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2008 |
ITT Interconnect Introduces Rugged Electrical Connectors for Transportation Applications ITT Interconnect Solutions is introducing electronic connectors for transportation applications called the Trident series. |
Popular Mechanics
November 6, 2009
Mike Allen |
Hydrogen Gadgets at SEMA: Cars Still Can't Run on Water Most gas savers I've investigated don't come with credible test results, just anecdotal testimonials. Caveat emptor, readers! |
This Old House
Jim Collins |
Surge Protection Don't count on power strips to safeguard your home and fragile electronics |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Mike Allen |
How to Replace a Headlight That Doesn't Want to Be Replaced Handling the delicate replacement of a quartz-bulb headlight. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Mike Allen |
How to Jumpstart Your Car Safely: Auto Clinic Properly jumpstarting a car will not damage any on-board electronics. Improperly jumpstarting, however, is another story. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2010 |
Distributed Power Supply for Industrial Computing Introduced by Emerson Emerson Network Power is introducing the DS760SL distributed power supply in a slimline form factor for space-constrained applications in server storage, industrial computing, and enterprise server racks. |
Home Theater
July 2001
Mike Wood |
HT Boot Camp: AC Power There's absolutely nothing worse than putting together an awesome home theater system that's starved for power or buzzing with ground loops. |
U.S. CPSC
June 18, 2003 |
CPSC, ESFI Warn Consumers About Electrical Hazards In The Home "Inspect and Protect!" campaign encourages homeowners to safeguard homes |
PC Magazine
December 21, 2005
Bill Howard |
Getting the Most from Your Batteries Batteries light up our lives and a whole array of devices. Here's how to choose and use them. |
PC Magazine
April 20, 2004
Craig Ellison |
Charge It Up If you've ever needed to power a 13-inch TV at a tailgate party or to recharge your notebook between sales calls, the Xantrex Micro-Inverter 175 may be just what you need. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2008 |
Crystek Corp. Introduces Small Coaxial Resonator Oscillator The CVCO38CC- 3660-3700 ultra-lowphase noise voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is for applications such as digital radio equipment, fixed wireless access, satellite communications systems, and base stations. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2007 |
LEA Offers Power-Distribution Panel for Mobile Satellite Communications Designed for mobile satellite communications, the PDP is light weight, portable, rugged, and simple to operate. |
