This handbook establishes a foundation for servicing, operating, and optimizing audio, video, computer, and RF systems. Following an overview of reliability principles, top experts describe the steps essential to ensuring high reliability and minimum downtime. They examine heat management issues, grounding systems, and system tests and measurement. They even explore disaster planning and provide guidelines for keeping a facility running during a disaster. Advocating a carefully planned, systematic maintenance program, this richly illustrated reference helps engineers and technicians meet the challenges inherent in modern electronic equipment and ensure top quality performance from each piece of hardware.