I’m about to buy a digital multimeter to troubleshoot all sorts of electrical issues around my home. I’ll be blunt. Do you own one? If so, which one? What do you like about the one you have? There ...

Q. I installed a dimmer switch in my dining room and now the chandelier only works half the time. There are two switches in the room that control the light. They worked fine before I started the job.

MORRISTOWN, NJ — Want to improve your hvacr circuit troubleshooting accuracy? Make sure that the ammeters you use are appropriate for today’s electrical loads, many of which have electronic signals ...

The basic test instrument suite — a bench power supply, a good multimeter and perhaps an oscilloscope — is extremely flexible, but not exactly “plug and play” when it comes to diagnosing problems with ...