Household Electrical Troubleshooting

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Home improvement and do-it-yourself resources have been sorely lacking when it comes to tackling home electrical problems - as opposed to electrical projects.

To the rescue are these resources. These concise, precise, and thorough manuals help you distinguish a short from a loose connection, and a ground-fault from a misconnection. They also help you find where your electrical malfunction is happening.

The author is Larry Dimock, a residential Master Electrician in Washington state. There he is known as The Circuit Detective, striking terror into the household electrical villains responsible for dead outlets and other mysteries. Larry also advises a do-it-yourself crowd around the U.S. and Canada with his troubleshooting website.

The Circuit DetectiveThe Circuit Detective (multimedia download)

Download: $7.00

This master electrician shares trade secrets on troubleshooting home electrical problems. A thorough guide by an expert, it lays out a strategy based on symptoms, and provides many relevant charts and color diagrams. Short circuits, dead outlets, GFCIs, and shocks are among the many troubles Larry Dimock demystifies. When this .ZIP file is unloaded into a folder on your computer, the "index" file will make it all work just like a website.

Circuit DownCircuit Down (book)

Print: $17.14

Download: $5.00

This is the spiral-bound edition of a guide for solving problems in the electrical circuits of a home - shorts, loose connections, GFCIs tripping, etc. The book is thorough but not overly technical, and gives over 30 helpful black and white diagrams and charts. Homeowners will come to understand their wiring system and what can happen to it. Many problems will become easy to fix with confidence.

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