Topic: Presentations

Electrical Concepts for Appliance Technicians, Part 1

Posted on July 26, 2015 by - Academy Talk, Presentations, Tech Talk

Earlier this summer, the United Servicers Association, Long Island, NY, chapter asked me to do a live webinar training for their monthly meeting. They were in a conference room at a hotel in New York while I was in my office in New Hampshire, hosting the webinar from my computer. Webinar sessions are an awesome way to provide in-depth training to techs; not only was I able to show and annotate the presentation, but I could answer questions real-time and carry on a discussion.

Since my audience was experienced techs, I moved pretty quickly through the material and we covered a lot of ground in one evening. The four major topics were: 1) the basics of electricity; 2) series and parallel circuits; 3) Ohm’s Law; and 4) understanding and reading schematics. All of these topics and more are taught in our online Fundamentals of Appliance Repair training course.

This video on electron flow, voltage, and current is the first in a four-part series where I’ll be sharing the recordings from that training session. Come with me now on a journey of Total Appliance Enlightenment…

 

I unpack this much more thoroughly in my presentations in the Fundamentals of Appliance Repair training course. If you or your technicians would like more in depth learning on these topics, check out the Fundamentals course. We offer online, comprehensive, up-to-date, technical training for appliance technicians in the 21st century!

A Master Samurai Tech Presentation: Troubleshooting Appliances using Ohm’s Law and Schematic Analysis

Posted on March 26, 2015 by - Presentations, Tech Talk

Learn from the Samurai and become a troubleshooting master!

In this action-packed, riveting, 30-minute, recording of a live webinar, Samurai Appliance Repair Man explains:

  • Ohm’s Law: what it is and how Master Samurai Techs deploy it with deadly accuracy to nuke appliance bootay
  • Understanding power and work in electric circuits
  • Applying Ohm’s Law to real-world troubleshooting situations
  • Schematic analysis of real schematics using Ohm’s Law and series circuit analysis
  • Understanding voltage vs. voltage drop
  • Understanding series loads
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Just before I did this webinar, I got a cool equation making program called, oddly enough, Equation Maker. Well, in my excitement to make cool looking equations, like the ones shown below, I formed the WRONG equation for Power starting at about 20:53 in the video. It was purely a transcription error– the actual calculation was based on the correct equation.

The INCORRECT equation for Power I used in the video is:

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But the CORRECT equation that the actual calculation was based on is:

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A Master Samurai Tech Presentation: Series and Parallel Circuits

Posted on March 21, 2015 by - Presentations, Tech Talk

A recording of the webinar held on March 19, 2015, on series, parallel, and series-parallel circuits. If you missed the live webinar, you can watch the recording and still partake of this cup of wisdom. Topics covered:

– Components of a circuit
– Voltage and current relationships in series and parallel circuits
– Introduction to reading schematics

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A Master Samurai Tech Presentation: What is Electricity?

Posted on March 21, 2015 by - Presentations, Tech Talk

A recording of the webinar held on March 19, 2015, on basic electricity. If you missed the live webinar, you can watch the recording and still partake of this cup of wisdom. Topics covered:

– The nature of electricity
– Voltage
– Current

This is just a small sample of what we teach in the Fundamentals of Appliance Repair training course. We go into great detail in a series of self-paced lessons explaining basic electricity, circuits, schematics, troubleshooting, motors, and much more! Enroll today!

 

 

 

A Master Samurai Tech Presentation: Troubleshooting Appliance Electronic Control Boards

Posted on March 10, 2015 by - Presentations, Tech Talk

A Master Samurai Tech Presentation:
Troubleshooting Appliance Electronic Control Boards

 

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Using a Whirlpool dishwasher as a case study, the Samurai explains each step in the process of troubleshooting electronic control boards in appliances, revealing the schematic mysteries to all who want to learn.

In this 38-minute video, you will learn:

  • Basic troubleshooting techniques with broad applications to all appliances
  • How to use tech sheets properly
  • How to get those control boards to talk to you
  • How to identify suspected problems using the schematic diagram
  • How to formulate a troubleshooting strategy based on schematic analysis
  • How to identify where to make electrical measurements
  • About triac-gated neutrals in AC loads with standing voltage
  • The difference between loading and non-loading voltage meters and when and why to use each

…and much more!

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Did you find this presentation enlightening? Find more appliantologically empowering videos like this in the Advanced Schematic Analysis and Troubleshooting training course, available here at Master Samurai Tech.
 

 

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