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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: colorado.rob on April 11, 2018, 05:11:35 pm

Title: Take it apart!
Post by: colorado.rob on April 11, 2018, 05:11:35 pm

The US FTC just re-affirmed that those warranty void stickers are meaningless in the US of A.

FTC Staff Warns Companies that it is Illegal to Condition Warranty Coverage on the Use of Specified Parts or Services (http://"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2018/04/ftc-staff-warns-companies-it-illegal-condition-warranty-coverage")

examples of questionable provisions:

    This warranty does not apply if this product . . .  has had the warranty seal on the [product] altered, defaced, or removed.

 :-+

Title: Re: Take it apart!
Post by: Bob Sava on April 11, 2018, 07:19:36 pm

Opening a case to just make sure that there are no loose connections, cold solder joints, solder balls or strands of wires should not void the warranty.

Title: Re: Take it apart!
Post by: bd139 on April 11, 2018, 07:26:32 pm

Yep. Same with Sanyo Eneloop charger. If I’d shaken it the solder blim would have dislodged and blown it up.

I open everything first.