If you've spent any time DIY-ing around your house, you've probably seen wire nuts. They're the colorful, twist-on connectors that join two or more electrical wires together. Since the earliest days ...

I decided to try solder seal butt connectors to tie into the factory wires, mainly because they claimed to be waterproof. But I soon found there are more reasons to use them instead of traditional ...

And practice. I also recommend using name-brand 63/37 rosin core solder because it melts and solidifies in a narrow temperature range, almost immediately, helping to eliminate a bad joint. Solder that ...

We've taught fifth graders how to solder the cells together, put them on a piece of glass and make electricity," said John Burke, chair of the American Solar Energy Society's photovoltaics ...

Hrmm, I changed the position of my audio equiptment stands and unfortunately I'm now short by 10 feet of Acoustic Research 16GA wire. I would run the wire ...

There are actually at least two ways to use 3 wires, and the video covers both of them. For measuring resistors in a circuit, though, you need a whopping six wires.

Homes built before the 1960s had different electrical regulations than we do now—including the fact that two-prong outlets were standard, rather than the average three-prong ones we typically ...