15. Scoping out your voltage

We have a portable generator that we use to power our home’s essentials in the event of a utility power outage. And home backup power generation could easily be one or more blog entries by itself. Generator sizing, portable versus fixed units, fuel options, power distribution options, operational safety… Today’s blog is more a follow-on…

14. The shockingly diverse world of multimeters

Electrification… The greatest engineering achievement of the twentieth century. Once a mysterious and almost magical curiosity, its use has become so intertwined with modern life that most of us scarcely think about it except when it stops—when our batteries go dead, the lights go out, or an appliance decides that it just doesn’t want to…