8 Oct
2007
8 Oct
'07
10:49 a.m.
On 08/10/2007, dwight elvey <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
OK, fair point. Conceded.
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I did say that cheap commodity hardware is the reason I don't repair
defective components, I just swap them out. However, that's not the
reason why I don't try to repair collectable kit. The thing *is* that
for pretty much my entire working life - i.e., the last 2 decades -
this has been the case, so I never learned electronics or how to do
component-level diagnosis or repair. And what's more, the skill is
more obsolete now than ever.
Hi
It isn't obsolete, just not main stream.
Almost every manufacture has a team called
"Product Engineers". These guys need to locate failures to the source
and determine root cause.
At board level they do the same type of stuff many of us do
in this group.
At the chip level, they even disect individual transistor on dies
to see what makes them tick wrong.
No, it isn't obsolete, just done at different levels.