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As an electronics manufacturing facility, you are in business to design, create, and produce electronic products for consumers. You create, develop, and assemble the components that are part of the product. This product could be a small appliance, TV, or even computer. Whatever it is you produce there is one thing you must do before you ship out your products. You must do electronic testing to make sure the products work. If the product doesn’t work, you will need to reconstruct or recycle the product. Electronics testing involves not just testing the equipment after it is produced. Testing also may involve testing equipment that has been returned under warranty for repairs or replacement. Either way, there is a fundamental way that equipment is tested. Before you test anything, you must follow certain rules and safety precautions. These precautions include:

• No power: Before you begin to work on any test equipment, you have to be certain that there is no power applied to the equipment, or else problems will occur. Remember, to be safe, there should be no juice.
• Electrical shock: You may not realize this but even after you unplug an appliance, certain components within the appliance still may hold a charge, this is especially true for TVs and microwaves. This charge has been known to stop the heart if the person is shocked by it. The best way to avoid this is to discharge the large capacitors in the appliance, or the picture tube, if it is a TV.
• Improper use of test equipment: If you are unsure about using test equipment, seek help or have someone do it for you. This is because electrical current can damage your test equipment. And if your test equipment gets damaged, you won’t be able to test the equipment. So make sure your testing equipment is set to the correct mode, voltage and amp setting before you hook it to the circuit or component to be tested.

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