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| Perils of "spares or repair" |
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| grumpydoc:
I don't mind buying stuff that needs repair - but would prefer if a gorilla with a soldering iron hadn't beaten me inside. This from a 0-30V 20A bench PSU sold by the manufacturer as faulty but with the heavy implication that no repair attempts had been made. I suspect one of their engineers tried but that they have a policy of "fix it in N hours or flog it on eBay", he's replaced the 741's that drive the pass transistors but stripped several pads in the process, joy :-\ |
| mikeselectricstuff:
Test gear is certainly one of the more risky "for repair" categories, as it's typically been owned by, or passed through the hands of the sort of people that will be able to fix anything simple! |
| grumpydoc:
You're right, of course, and I do consider that when buying, but it would be nice if they could at least replace a few ICs without knackering the PCB. In this case it looks like it's closer to "...the sort of people that think they will be able to fix anything simple!" |
| Simon:
well even I could lift ICs off board when i was a kid and wanted the IC and the board did not get wrecked in the process even though I did not care for the board. A gorilla indeed |
| Ajahn Lambda:
This thread is offensive to gorillas. :P lol Wow, that's awful. Best of luck repairing it. |
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