Timer charts may be for old-skool appliances with mechanical timers, but there are still plenty of old-skool appliances knocking around, so reading timer charts remains a vital troubleshooting skill.
That's exactly what we cover in this workshop: how to cohere the timer chart and the schematic, reading them in tandem. Kind of like they're dance partners in the Timer Chart Cha-Cha!
Topics covered in this workshop include:
How to decipher the rows and columns on a timer chart
Merry Christmas from Team Samurai! Here's wishing you a joyous and peaceful holiday with all of your friends and family. And after that, lots and lots of kicking appliance bootay in the new year.
Need help with your very, very last minute gift shopping? This might help you out. (Weren't appliance ads just the best back in the day?)
We had an interesting discussion at our most recent Live Dojo workshop! This dryer only runs when the push-to-start button is held down -- a relatively simple problem, but troubleshooting it requires us to understand the entire motor circuit and how it works on startup.
We began by using Ten-Step Tango to orient our troubleshooting, identifying our Load of Interest and analyzing its circuit.
This led us to examining how the start switch works, which includes some interesting components
One of the best things we can do to sharpen our skills as techs is to learn from other techs' experiences. There are a number of ways to do that, but the way that's both most convenient and lets you learn from the greatest variety of techs is searching the tech help forums here at Appliantology.
Appliantology has been on the web for 20 years now, and over that time the site has amassed a library of technical knowledge that is unmatched anywhere else. As a member of Appliantology, all of th
More than any other AC load, motors are all about amps.
What do I mean by that? When you have a motor that is misbehaving, the best, most informative electrical test you can do by far is amps. And one of the worst mistakes you could make is to just rely on ohms when testing a motor.
In this recording from one of our biweekly Live Dojo workshops, we go over several different aspects of troubleshooting motors.
Thermal controls are the first order of business. All AC motors have an i
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