[Free] 3 Motor Troubleshooting Case Studies

[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.

If you're currently a professional appliance repair tech, these workshop videos will improve your understanding of electric circuits and appliance technology and up your troubleshooting game. If you're a DIYer or considering getting into the appliance repair trade (great choice!), these workshops will kick your training into high gear.

If you would like a more structured, step-by-step, training experience, enroll today at the Master Samurai Tech Appliance Repair School. One of the benefits of enrolling at Master Samurai Tech is that you get a free 6-month professional membership here at Appliantology which gives you access to all the workshops, the tech forums, and the service manual downloads. If you get certified in our Core Appliance Repair Training Course, you get a free annual professional membership at Appliantology. See details on this page. 

Now, on to the workshop! 

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 Motors are their own little microcosm within the appliance repair world. In fact, if you start going down the motor rabbit hole, you can go really deep. And while that deeper knowledge might not seem immediately relevant to making repairs, it gives you exactly the background you need to troubleshoot motors efficiently and intelligently, saving you time and money.

In this workshop, we go through 3 different real-world case studies that all help us to understand motors better. Come along for the ride as we talk about:

• Starting a split-phase motor using triacs instead of a start device
• Reactance and impedance in motors
• Why resistance doesn't tell the whole story when it comes to motors
• How to use non-invasive current measurements to troubleshoot a motor
• What compressor amperage tells you about a sealed system

...and more!