[Free] Which Electrical Measurements to Use and Why

[Son of Samurai]

We hope you enjoy this free workshop and that it helps make you a better appliance tech. This workshop will be available to the public for free through this month. After that, we'll remove this one and post a new free featured workshop selected from our vast repository of appliance repair training workshop videos.

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Now, on to the workshop! 

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In this workshop, we discussed the nitty-gritty of how you select an electrical measurement, where you take that measurement, and how to interpret it. We cover a few different scenarios to demonstrate this principle, including:

• A Samsung dryer
• A Samsung dishwasher
• An Electrolux dryer

 

[J5*]

The best one is the $ measurement 😂 

[Darrell L]

As usual, good training video.

On the heating while on air fluff scenario, I was wondering if we could also do an ohms test from each of the heating element connections on the board to the rear cabinet after disconnecting them from the board? I believe we would have continuity since the heater can is connected to the chassis. 

[Samurai Appliance Repair Man]

8 hours ago, Darrell L said:

On the heating while on air fluff scenario, I was wondering if we could also do an ohms test from each of the heating element connections on the board to the rear cabinet after disconnecting them from the board? I believe we would have continuity since the heater can is connected to the chassis. 

Of course you could do that but you have to tear down the dryer to access the heating element. The point of this video was showing how to troubleshoot with minimal disassembly. Save the tear down for the actual repair where you replace a part.