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It's not just consumer electronics that suffer from integration -- it's pretty much all appliances. We have a fantastic old (probably 10+ years) clothes washin
by beambot 15y ago
It's not just consumer electronics that suffer from integration -- it's pretty much all appliances.
We have a fantastic old (probably 10+ years) clothes washing machine. The lid switch went dead about 2 months ago. We looked at (possible) replacements at a retail store and realized that there was absolutely _no way_ to repair many of the newer models -- a process you can count on given the MTBF of many electronics components. A $10 replacement lid switch from Ebay and a 15-minute solder job and the old machine was back to working beautifully.
It's sad... despite having a professional electronics lab in my home (including hot-air rework, stereo microscope, and a great oscope), I doubt I could repair many (most?) modern electronics failures.
- swishercutter 15y agoNice, we had a 2 year old range stop working in our condo...it wouldn't heat. So since we were upgrading appliances one at a time that was obviously next (it sucked anyways). So I traced the problem back to the control board...$500+ online, so I ripped into it, found the burned solder connection (admittedly very simple fix, but still a very simple circuit otherwise), resoldered the connection and now we have a working stove to sell/trade/donate. Total cost: 2 hrs and less than a penny worth of solder. BTW, I am jealous of the stereo microscope and hot air rework station...those are on my list for my shop (Just got a Rigol oscope to hack a few months back)...Sometimes, I miss working in production and having access to all that..although I have better handtools now.