Repairing reach-in coolers and freezers with electronic temperature controllers can be challenging at times. Some failures are easy to troubleshoot and repair, but others can be frustrating. For ...

The useful troubleshooting techniques that follow are the result of 20 years of electrical-engineering projects in the automotive, biomedical, instrumentation, and telecommunications areas.

A common metering device used on new walk-in cooler/freezers today is the electronic expansion valve (EEV). It allows for a tighter control of a refrigerant’s superheat value leaving the evaporator ...

When is the last time you had some electronic product repaired? Didn’t you just throw away the defective product and get a new better one? Or not? I have come to view electronic equipment as basically ...

With large electronic development projects, a disproportionate amount of time is spent troubleshooting bugs in “finished” devices. In the worst cases, projects are wrapped up and products sold to ...

Lawmakers in five states introduced a bill that aims to grant consumers the “right to repair” electronics, obligating manufacturers to sell replacement parts to owners and independent repair shops as ...

As the owner of a phone and laptop repair shop in San Diego, Tony Heupel says he often faces roadblocks. Products seem intentionally designed to be difficult to fix, he says, and it’s not always easy ...