Testing Electronic Parts and Components
This eBook shows you how to TEST COMPONENTS. To do this you need "TEST GEAR." The best item of Test Gear is a MULTIMETER. It can test almost 90% of all components. And that's what we will do in this eBook:
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**Use your "brain, knowledge and your fingers."**
Before we start, fixing anything is a combination of skill, luck and good diagnosis. Sometimes you can fix something by letting it run until it finally fails. Some things start to work as soon as you touch them. Some things can never be fixed. But some things can be fixed by feeling the temperature rise and deciding if it is getting too hot.
Sometimes you can smell something getting too hot. Sometimes you can see SMOKE. All these things make you a very clever technician and about 50% of faults will be fixed by looking for dry joints, burnt parts, overheating and carefully inspecting an item before you disturb [it.By](http://it.By) simply touching different items you can quite often feel a hot item and home-in on the fault - at a saving of hours of work.