When you need a multimeter for testing electrical equipment around the home, it's vital to know what all those symbols around the dial mean.

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Learn how to test a transformer: insulation resistance, TTR, winding resistance, polarity, continuity, and dielectric checks.

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Occasionally a design requires capacitors that are much closer to being identical in value to one another than the usual ...

Radio experimenters often need a variable capacitor to tune their circuits, as the saying goes, for maximum smoke. In decades past these were readily available from almost any scrap radio, but the ...

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. — Next month, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is going completely paperless — a move the agency says will reduce fraud and cut administrative costs. The shift to digital ...

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