3 Feb
2006
3 Feb
'06
10:49 a.m.
I had my $500 Sony TV repaired the old fashion way
last summer.
For $200 total or so, out of warranty, a guy from a big TV/appliance
regional chain drove 40 minutes, debugged which transistor was
I'm wondering why you didn't just grab the service manual from the shelf
and track it down yourself... It couldn't have taken that long.
Actually, that's one reason I repair instead of replace, even on old
stuff. Having invested in the service manual, and in some cases made up
extension leads. test jigs, etc, I don't want to have to do all that
again because I've bought some new device.
flakey, then made the return trip with the replacement
and
resoldered it right there in my living room. Fairly old school,
maybe 55 or so. But looking inside the TV, it was clear there
weren't that many non-IC non-daughterboard parts. My problem was
In the UK, if TVs are repaired at all, then the daughterboards are also
repaired to compoennt level, even when they contain 100+ pin SMD ICs.
Boardswapping in consumer electronics is relatively uncommon over here,
at least from what I've read.
relatively simple; the TV wouldn't turn on
reliably.
But so few things are repaired these days. I know the IT people
at several nearby school systems. Regional consortiums (called
CESA in WI) once repaired their small electronic equipment, but
now they're gone and now they're stuck. Where to go to repair
a laser printer? An overhead projector?
And just how many components are there in an OHP? And how hard is it to
trace the fault with nothing mroe than a multimeter?
-tony