Fault Fixer:
Troubleshooting Guides
Fault Fixer is the essential troubleshooting companion to the Wired Right series. These diagnostic manuals are built for professionals, mechanics, and builders who need to solve real electrical problems in the field. Written by IPC/WHMA-A-620 certified experts, each title focuses on isolating faults, tracing root causes, and applying reliable, standards-based fixes across aircraft, automotive, marine, and e-bike systems.
This is not surface-level repair advice. Each guide delivers practical solutions for real-world failures that other books overlook.
📘 What You’ll Learn in Every Troubleshooting Guide:
- How to analyze voltage drop and resistance paths
- Methods to isolate signal loss and data line faults
- Diagnosis of intermittent power issues and startup failures
- Correction strategies for EMI, ground loops, and thermal faults
- System-specific testing procedures and recovery steps
- Prevention practices that follow Class 2 and Class 3 standards
🔧 Each Troubleshooting Guide Includes:
- Tables of symptoms, root causes, and verified solutions
- Field-tested troubleshooting steps and component-level checks
- Real-life failure examples and fix recommendations
- Application-specific tips and advice from real builders
- Installation review points and post-repair validation steps
- Preventative maintenance practices and system protection tips
⚡ Diagnose Like a Technician. Fix It for Good.
Each book in this series provides complete, application-specific diagnostics written for the real-world environment. Whether you’re chasing down a mystery voltage drop or fixing a grounding issue that shuts down your system, these guides help you solve it permanently.
Aircraft Wiring Troubleshooting & Diagnostic
When something electrical goes wrong in the air, the margin for error is zero. Unlike shallow advice that only says to “check your grounds,” this guide provides complete root-cause analysis, step-by-step solutions, and real-world prevention techniques. All content is grounded in IPC/WHMA-A-620 standards and verified failure cases from experimental aircraft, avionics retrofits, and light sport builds.
Automotive Wiring Troubleshooting & Diagnostic
If your wiring system is acting up and you are tired of guessing, this guide gives you everything you need to find and fix the problem the right way. This is not a general electrician’s guide. It is a deep reference built for enthusiasts and professionals working with switched 12V circuits, relays, fused power feeds, and high-current loads. Every section is field-tested, and every fault mode is backed by real diagnostic methods.
Marine Wiring Troubleshooting & Diagnostic
This is a professional-grade diagnostic manual for identifying and fixing electrical failures in marine vessel wiring systems. Built for technicians, DIY builders, and marine electricians, this guide focuses on the real failure modes that cause navigation loss, bilge pump failures, signal interference, or full system shutdowns.
E-Bike Wiring Troubleshooting & Diagnostic
A professional manual for diagnosing and repairing electrical faults in high-performance e-bikes and e-motos, including models from ONYX, Talaria, Sur-ron, Lectric, and Aventon. Designed for field technicians, DIY builders, and system integrators, this guide focuses on real-world failures at the harness level. You’ll learn how to isolate and correct power delivery issues, sensor faults, connector failures, signal interference, and environmental damage using field-tested methods.
Wired Right:
How-To Guides
Wired Right is the definitive how-to wiring guide series for builders, mechanics, and DIYers who demand more than guesswork. Written by a IPC/WHMA-A-620 certified expert, each title in this hands-on series teaches you how to build electrical harnesses that meet the same standards used in marine, automotive, aircraft, and e-moto systems.
Whether you’re restoring a hot rod, wiring an experimental aircraft, upgrading your boat’s bilge system, or building a high-performance e-bike, this series walks you through every cut, crimp, and test, step by step.
📘 What You’ll Learn in Every How-To Guide:
- Wire Sizing & Circuit Planning for real-world reliability
- Marine, Aircraft, and Road-Grade Materials selection
- IPC/WHMA-A-620 Compliant Techniques
- Crimping, Sealing, and Routing Standards
- Labeled Diagrams + Visual Inspection Checklists
- Troubleshooting Common Electrical Failures
🔧 Each How-To Guide Includes:
- A complete Bill of Materials (BOM)with part numbers
- Wiring schematics and build diagrams
- Printable test and inspection checklists
- Application-specific tips and advice from real builders
- Wiring cheat-sheet and notepad pages
- Compliance notes for IPC, ABYC E-11, UL 1426 and more
⚙️ Build Like a Professional. Wire It Right.
Each volume in this series is a standalone, full-scope guide tailored to a specific application but built on the same principles: precision, durability, and safety. Whether you’re on the dock, in the garage, or at the hangar, these guides are built for the real world.
Aircraft
Auto
12-Circuit Universal Wiring Harness How-To
Learn to build the basic core of an automotive wiring system with this detailed guide covering every step of the process. Designed for hot rods, classic cars, and custom vehicle builds, this manual teaches you how to build a 12-circuit fused harness from scratch using real-world IPC/WHMA-A-620 techniques.
Marine
Bilge Pump and Float Switch How-To
Learn to build a professional-grade marine wiring harness for your bilge pump and float switch with this detailed guide. Designed for small outboard-powered boats and center consoles, this manual walks you through every step—from selecting the right materials to crimping, sealing, routing, and testing your entire system.
E-bike
What This Means for You
Most DIY wiring jobs fail because of guesswork, bad diagrams, or cutting corners. These guides eliminate all of that. You get a clear path to build harnesses that actually work the first time.
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You won’t waste hours watching conflicting YouTube videos
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You won’t fry components with the wrong fuse or crimp
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You won’t get stuck halfway through wondering what wire goes where
These guides hand you everything. The right connectors. The correct wire colors. The fuse sizes. The test points. The tools.
You don’t need to be an engineer. You just need to follow instructions. If you’re serious about wiring your own system, this is the cleanest way to do it.
Build with confidence.