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Service Manuals – Consumer Electronics Repair Information Platform

48 points by NKosmatos 4y ago

NKosmatos 4y ago
One of the best sites with service manuals for almost everything, helping to reduce e-waste by giving us information to repair our devices. This is something all electronics manufacturers should do, have all the service manuals freely available.
- zhrvoj 4y ago
  Problem is that electronics manufacturers, stopped making Service manuals for their equipment, or they are mediocre ...
Eisenstein 4y ago
I'm not sure if they still do this, but when I signed up for an account on Elektrotanya many years ago I had to pass a basic electronics engineering quiz in Hungarian. Google translate worked well enough and I passed, but I thought it was marvelous.
- myself248 4y ago
  I came here to post this. It's the best-implemented "keep the idiots from cluttering up the forum and/or hurting themselves" test I've ever seen. There was a time when simply getting TCP/IP running on a machine was a test, of sorts. It was also marvelous.
DavidPeiffer 4y ago
I recently started recording product info (manufacturer, model, serial number, purchase date, etc.) to a Google sheet and locating all relevant documents (spec sheet, repair manuals, etc.) and saving those to a Google Drive folder. Sites like this are a really great resource when getting everything setup! Having all this info readily available makes it so much easier to check if my device is involved in a recall right when I see a news story or doing preliminary diagnosis of an issue. I also set the folder to stay synced and downloaded to my phone to have the information available regardless of if the power is out.
dharrison27 4y ago
r/opendirectories needs to get in on this.
myself248 4y ago
You know what would make this even better? A regular dump, say yearly, of the entire content into a torrent. It's probably several TB but I'd dedicate a disk to it, because the info is solid gold, and it would be an incredible loss if it got taken down someday.

48 points by NKosmatos 4y ago

One of the best sites with service manuals for almost everything, helping to reduce e-waste by giving us information to repair our devices. This is something all electronics manufacturers should do, have all the service manuals freely available.

zhrvoj 4y ago
Problem is that electronics manufacturers, stopped making Service manuals for their equipment, or they are mediocre ...

Eisenstein 4y ago

I'm not sure if they still do this, but when I signed up for an account on Elektrotanya many years ago I had to pass a basic electronics engineering quiz in Hungarian. Google translate worked well enough and I passed, but I thought it was marvelous.

myself248 4y ago
I came here to post this. It's the best-implemented "keep the idiots from cluttering up the forum and/or hurting themselves" test I've ever seen. There was a time when simply getting TCP/IP running on a machine was a test, of sorts. It was also marvelous.

DavidPeiffer 4y ago

I recently started recording product info (manufacturer, model, serial number, purchase date, etc.) to a Google sheet and locating all relevant documents (spec sheet, repair manuals, etc.) and saving those to a Google Drive folder. Sites like this are a really great resource when getting everything setup! Having all this info readily available makes it so much easier to check if my device is involved in a recall right when I see a news story or doing preliminary diagnosis of an issue. I also set the folder to stay synced and downloaded to my phone to have the information available regardless of if the power is out.

dharrison27 4y ago

r/opendirectories needs to get in on this.

myself248 4y ago

You know what would make this even better? A regular dump, say yearly, of the entire content into a torrent. It's probably several TB but I'd dedicate a disk to it, because the info is solid gold, and it would be an incredible loss if it got taken down someday.