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Excellent page. Your site.

Pedro Talavera

Thank you very much for your articles. I look forward to reading more of your cases. I read and learn, thanks.

Donald Gamble

Very helpful stuff. I will come back to this site often.

Howard

Your site is amazing. I have learned loads. Keep up the good work.

Simon Wallis

Great Web Site I enjoy reading your case studies. I work in a Auto repair shop and do a fair bit of Electrical. Keep up the good work.

Stephen Pilcher

I find your articles really well presented and informative. I'll look forward to reading some more. Thanks for taking time to run the site it has inspired me to try and work a bit smarter.

Richard Finn

It's good to see someone work a problem for what it really is, I rate your work highly because of it's ability to dilute a problem. There are key moments in your articles/diagnosis that are well discussed and I can certainly relate to.

Corey Harding

I'm impressed to see someone not phased by a problem and how you overcome it. Nicely done.

Jack Ellis

You make what you do look easy, and it isn't.

Jeff Skinner

Great articles Nick, I like your methods and thought process they can be applied to almost anything. I've found the best learning sources always come from people who have actually done what they are talking about, hands-on is definitely the key here.

Mark Stutton

I look forward to every article you write. I can honestly say that without your selfless act of knowledge sharing I would be sat idle and let this opportunity slip away. Up to now I never met anyone that got excited about electrical faults and the challenge they offer. I cant thank you enough, you opened up a new door for me.

Brian Nonnenmacher

I've been in the technical publication genre for many years now and your material makes the topic of electrical studies easy and enjoyable. It's honest, real, and I can see it appealing to Technicians who aren't specialists in Auto-Electrical as well as those who are. Your tips obviously comes from experience and with your permission I'd like to use them as an opening to a presentation I'm involved with. Good work.

Andrew Wirrel

A wizard with a multimeter and a test lamp. Interesting to watch and always has time to pause and explain.

Barry Thorpe - T&N Engineering

Nick, Thank you for taking the time to design and make available your web site to those in our industry. Your case studies are top notch and very, very informative. Particularly interesting that we seem to have the same issues as you do “across the pond”. Again thanks Nick, and keep those case studies coming, they are much appreciated!

John Thompson - Thompson Automotive Labs

Good work here, you obviously enjoy what you do and that's rare.

Anthony Moulson - A&G Senior Electrical Advisor

When you are out in the field you have to pit your own wits against the problem and that's exactly what comes across in your work. Simply being spoon fed what's in a manual wont take anyone very far, you have to rely on what you know works and this includes adapting different techniques, experimenting with new ones, eliminate possible scenarios, thinking out the fault; it all adds to ones ability to build an effective troubleshoot process and a better understanding. The work here explains that very well, it's what learning should be. It's good to see how different Techs approach different problems and your methods make good reading, I'm always looking to find ways to improve. You demonstrate what can be accomplished when you start thinking outside the manual, I was brought up the same.

Joe Morgan - Morgan Developments

Excellent investigations. I'll be coming back here again.

Jay Doonan

Nick you're probably the only person to prove me wrong and me end up thanking you for it. I raise a smile when I think back, it's the difference between me knowing it and you understanding it. Credit.

Ade Renton

I want to say it's really good to watch an investigation evolve from scratch and being not too difficult to follow as well. There are parts you discuss in your cases that in all my time I've never had anyone explain to me, most of the time I'm left to find out for myself which isn't actually a bad thing. Using techniques like you describe has helped me build a better understanding of circuitry in every day situations, because of work like this I am gaining my apatite back for electrical fault finding again. I'm thinking of buying my first oscilloscope and I'd like to thank you and say this is a welcomed resource Nick.

P Armitage

The site is wonderful, keep up the great dedication.

Wade Lennan

Well executed. I try and do a similar thing, sadly not to the same standard as you for my staff. I own and run a small busy workshop which means I'm the one spending Sunday back at the workshop for some quiet-time on a problem car. When I eventually find the problem I make a few notes to pass round the workshop so everyone is then aware of the problem. Your real-time data logging practice is very effective, I would like to know more about it please. Your Tips are right on.

Les Moore

Just wanted to send a quick note to say how good your case studies on the Pico site are. I am new to scopes and have only had my Pico for a few months. I have just been on a Bosch basic test procedures course, Volt drop testing on Starters and Alternators etc. was covered. Whilst the course helped me understand things better your study of the Starter Motor fault was brilliant, superbly written and presented with scope screens it helped me understand and backed up many of the things learnt on the course. Keep up the good work. I'm gonna print off your tips page and put it on my toolbox! Many thanks Jez.

Jeremy Chamberlain

What I find enjoyable is nearly all of your cases comes down to fundamentals of electricity and I agree that this is the most overlooked. Unfortunately there is a stigma attached to anything BASIC so no-one gives it the attention it deserves and I feel this is the root of a lot of problems generally. I think you will agree with me that BASIC ELECTRICAL THEORY is also ESSENTIAL ELECTRICAL PRACTICE. Nicely done Nick.

Mark Graham

The real world case studies that you have put together are great. I really like them because they illustrate how a sound understanding of basic electrical theory, automotive systems, and diagnostic tools such as scopes and scan tools can be used to diagnose real world automotive problems. I use them as real world diagnostic case study examples in the automotive electronics courses that I teach. Some of my students have commented that they like reading the diagnostic case studies written by technicians a lot better than an automotive electronics textbook. I hope that they learn as much as I do when I read the articles. Thanks again.

L Maki

Good approaches to problem solving and you're right we are continually learning.

Jon Ashton

Really good investigations, there's a skill demonstrated here in the ability to break a troubleshoot down. Influential work.

Thomas Broadbent

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