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How to Prevent Circuit Overloads

When you plug in a blender, turn it on, and the power goes off, you've got a circuit overload. Here's how to prevent that ...
Learn how to test a transformer: insulation resistance, TTR, winding resistance, polarity, continuity, and dielectric checks.
Car batteries don’t just die. Well, they will if you leave them for long enough. but not just over the course of a few hours or even just a day or two. Finding your car has a dead battery after it was ...
Over on YouTube our hacker [VIP Love Secretary] shows us how to make a simple MOSFET tester. This is a really neat, useful, elegant, and simple hack, but the video is kind of terrible. We found ...